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SHAKESPEARE’S

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Queer Shakespeare

Desire, Sexuality and Embodiment Edited by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University, Canada The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this second edition features revisions to the original chapters and an additional 5 new chapters. The plays and poems of Shakespeare overflow with sexual and erotic discourses, languages, and representations concerning eroticism and sex, and they display forms of embodiment that intersect with the erotic. This preoccupation with sex and desire often disrupts on page and stage the otherwise heavily regulated worlds of sexuality and desire in UK June 2026 • US June 2026 384 Pages HB 9781350527485 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9781350527478 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9781350527508 • £22.49 / $31.45 ePub 9781350527492 • £22.49 / $31.45 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s society. The updated chapters take stock of the ideas and arguments explored in queer Shakespeare scholarship since the first edition in 2017. Five new chapters expand the scope of the book and trace further lines of enquiry: queerness in stage performance, and in the original intersection between textual and trans analysis; queerness and race; queerness and critical disability studies in the narrative poetry, and trans theory of queer Shakespeare. Together with a new introduction, Queer Shakespeare expands the possibilities for teaching both Shakespeare and queer theory in all of its manifestations.

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Shakespeare and Trauma Theory Kelsey Ridge, Alvernia University, USA Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its intellectual and practical application. Ridge covers the history of trauma theory from Freud to Holocaust studies and PTSD by drawing on psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, post-colonial theory and disability studies. The Rape of Lucrece, Titus Andronicus, and Merchant of Venice provide initial case studies of trauma-informed analyses of Shakespeare, whilst a focus on adaptation furthers our understanding of key plays and productions. These include The Tempest, The Percys’ Opera inspired by Henry IV, Part 1, and Cry Havoc!, a production by the trauma-focused theatre company De-Cruit, which together suggest how trauma theory can be used as a tool for analysing Shakespeare as well as engaging with the lived experience of trauma itself. In communicating these interpretations, Ridge provides a set of tools for Shakespeare and Theory UK February 2026 • US April 2026 184 Pages PB 9781350439146 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350439108 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9781350439122 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781350439115 • £72.00 / $99.00 The Arden Shakespeare

those wanting to conduct their own trauma theory analyses of Shakespeare, productions and adaptations themselves. A dynamic resource for academics, students, and theatre practitioners, Shakespeare and Trauma Theory includes suggested readings and resources as well as a glossary of key terms to support understanding of an important and growing field in Shakespeare studies.

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The State of Play Edited by Emma Smith, University of Oxford, UK Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will through a variety of critical lenses. Shakespeare’s comedy of gender confusion and unrequited love was a critical play for feminist readings and ideas related to cross-dressing, gender fluidity and relationships in the 1980s. Since then, it has been somewhat critically adrift. Smith’s collection of essays resets the critical conversation that surrounds this play to a more contemporary idiom and provides an up-to-date reader for both professors and their students.

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An interdisciplinary volume, this book gathers a range of voices and views in order to assess how transformative work on texts, identity and race has impacted Twelfth Night’s standing in current Shakespeare conversations. Scholars from across the globe utilize viewpoints stemming from transgender studies, environmental studies, racial studies and queer theory, in order to provide a present-day exploration of the play’s critical framework, and stimulate future conversations that arise from recent adaptations and performance traditions from beyond the anglophone sphere.

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Rethinking Science and Religion in Early Modern Culture Edited by Aaron Kitch, Bowdoin College, USA & Jennifer R. Rust, Saint Louis University, USA Early modern Europe provides a rich context from which to challenge the rigid opposition between science and religion in this bold new edited collection. Contributors reveal how modes of science or natural philosophy, and religion, were mutually interdependent, even if they were also fluid and contested. Essays break new ground by situating texts and artefacts of early modern science and religion in terms of contemporary scholarly developments, including ecocriticism, postcolonial, race and affect studies. By foregrounding questions of gender, embodiment, evidence and the historical formation of scientific colonialism, this collection locates the early modern body and its empirical study as a source of both religious and scientific knowledge. Essays cover the soteriological body at the heart of Andreas Vesalius’ seminal studies of anatomy, depictions of the hymen UK June 2026 • US June 2026 256 Pages PB 9781350511668 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350511620 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9781350511644 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781350511637 • £72.00 / $99.00 The Arden Shakespeare

in Shakespeare and medical texts and forms of empiricism in John Donne. Where some of the essays address non-literary works, many chapters explore the role of imaginative literature and aesthetics more broadly. Beyond the centrality of Protestant Christianity to early modern European science, some contributors consider the influence of hermetic writings on Francis Bacon and read the Mayan K’iche’ epic of creation known as the Popul Wuj alongside Milton’s Paradise Lost. These inquiries demonstrate the value of comparative perspectives in a period in which radical social, political and religious changes caused a series of epistemic ruptures.

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Phyllida Lloyd Elizabeth Schafer, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & David Bullen, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Part of the series Shakespeare in the Theatre, this book examines the work of Phyllida Lloyd who has transformed and revolutionized 21st century Shakespeare by her all female productions. It begins with the Globe Taming of the Shrew in 2003 and then, later, with her Shakespeare Trilogy: her Donmar Theatre productions of Julius Caesar (2012), Henry IV (2014) and The Tempest (2016). While critical response to The Shrew was divided, with some seeing all female approach casting as evocative of ‘girls’ boarding school’ Shakespeare, by the time of Lloyd’s 2016 season of Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest at King’s Cross, most critics appeared to be won over or at least accepting. Shakespeare in the Theatre UK May 2026 • US May 2026 216 Pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781350613898 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350106345 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9781350106369 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781350106352 • £72.00 / $99.00 The Arden Shakespeare

The book explores the significance of Lloyd’s ongoing working relationships with key performers – Janet McTeer, Meryl Streep, Harriet Walter – while acknowledging the importance of Lloyd’s success with Mamma Mia! in freeing her to pursue high risk theatrical ventures – such as the all female Shakespeare productions - without needing to worry unduly about what the reviewers thought. Schafer illustrates how Lloyd’s ability to hold realism and the non real in creative tension - an ability on display in Mamma Mia! in the all female productions and in her opera productions - is particularly critical when she is working with Shakespeare’s (mostly) anti-illusionistic dramaturgy.

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Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition Edited by Marga Munkelt, University of Munster, Germany This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume provides, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, and the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. This volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century. Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition UK May 2026 • US May 2026 504 Pages HB 9781474257008 • £140.00 / $190.00 PB 9781350442924 • £39.99 / $54.95 ePDF 9781350321434 • £126.00 / $171.00 ePub 9781350321441 • £126.00 / $171.00 The Arden Shakespeare

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A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets Roland Weidle, Ruhr University, Germany This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, introducing them to the literary tradition, themes, stylistic features and cultural contexts of the genre and the collection, and offering close readings of more than 100 sonnets. This combined approach enables readers not only to disentangle the complex relationships of the poems’ characters but also to appreciate their philosophical, sensual, topical and subversive qualities. Of the book’s two sections, the first, ‘Contexts and Forms’, includes chapters on the sonnet tradition, early publication history, the structural features of the sequence and the Shakespearean sonnet, as well as the main characteristics of the UK May 2026 • US May 2026 256 Pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350382831 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9781350382879 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350382855 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781350382848 • £72.00 / $99.00 The Arden Shakespeare

dramatis personae. The second section, ‘Themes’, consists of 5 chapters and explores the theme clusters that can be identified throughout the sequence (preservation, writing, desire, deception, imagination). Additional features of the book include a step-by-step approach to a Shakespeare sonnet, a model interpretation of a sonnet, as well as charts and tables identifying and summarizing the sequence’s mini-narratives, groups, addressees and themes. For easy reference, the sonnets discussed in the book are cross-referenced and listed in the index, which also includes key terms and names of works and people. Suggestions for further reading are provided at the end of each chapter, and the annotated bibliography includes brief descriptions of the most useful works for further study.

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Shakespeare and Comics Negotiating Cultural Value

Edited by Jim Casey, Independent scholar, USA & Brandon Christopher, University of Winnipeg, Canada From their inception, ‘low culture’ comics have intersected with the ‘high culture’ of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision. Its chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from tebeo to manga, from independent to mainstream comics, texts explored include Y: The Last Man, Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' (The Sandman #19), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I Am Alfonso Jones, Marvel 1602, Doom 2099, and manga adaptations of The Tempest and Macbeth, among many others. Shakespeare and Adaptation UK April 2026 • US April 2026 264 Pages • 14 bw illus HB 9781350401341 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350401389 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350401365 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350401358 • £76.50 / $103.50 The Arden Shakespeare

As comic books and their big-screen progeny dominate mainstream popular culture, the association of Shakespeare with comics offers creators and critics tools with which to interrogate the place of Shakespeare within the English and global literary and cultural traditions. Shakespeare and Comics argues that, at a moment when the reassessment and reimagining of literary canons has become more urgent than ever, thinking about Shakespeare through the lens of comics invites us to imagine a literary and cultural landscape in which so-called ‘great works’ exist alongside and in equal conversation with marginalized writers, topics and forms.

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Book Culture in Shakespeare’s Stratford The Quiney Connections

Marlin E. Blaine, California State University, Fullerton, USA, Lena Cowen Orlin, Georgetown University, Robert Bearman, University of Birmingham, UK & Alan H. Nelson, University of California, Berkeley, USA The recent discovery of two Latin books that once belonged to the Quiney family of Stratford-upon-Avon expands our understanding of Shakespeare’s grammar school education and of the social, material, and learned networks that operated in his hometown. One of these books, the Apophthegmata of Erasmus, belonged to Shakespeare’s friend and neighbour, Richard Quiney, while the other, a commentary on Aristotelian logic, was owned by a different Richard Quiney, who was Shakespeare’s grandson.

Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture UK December 2025 • US December 2025 288 Pages • 21 b/w illus PB 9781350558564 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350558526 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9781350558540 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781350558533 • £72.00 / $99.00 The Arden Shakespeare

Building from a simple account of these findings, Book Culture in Shakespeare’s Stratford: The Quiney Connections sheds new light on the use of Latin in the market town that produced the world’s most famous playwright. The story it tells weaves together analysis of letters, sermons, wills, public monuments and other printed books owned by local residents. Complementing these cultural explorations, biographical studies of Quiney family members and influential clergymen and teachers in Stratford evoke the impact of this learned culture on the lived experience of individual people. This study breaks new ground in our understanding of the rich educational environment that would enliven the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.

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Theatre of Fire

Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre Philip Butterworth, University of Leeds, UK This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval and Tudor theatre. Evidence concerning the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval and tudor theatre points to some hazardous, exciting and spectacular theatrical activity. The effects range from the simple use of candles to impressive ‘set-pieces’ for dramatic firework events. Although the term ‘special effect’ is not a medieval one, it is a useful modern term to draw together activity through the production of flame and fire in addition to that produced by the actions of players. Examining the production of pyrotechnic devices and approaches to their construction, provision and creative use, this book considers five major forms of evidence: guild, civic and ecclesiastical records, firework writers’ recipes, eye-witness UK April 2026 • US April 2026 304 Pages • 32 bw illus PB 9781350565470 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350565432 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9781350565456 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781350565449 • £72.00 / $99.00 The Arden Shakespeare

accounts, recipes in Books of Secrets and explicit stage directions in plays. This edition reidentifies one of the five forms of evidence, the ‘explicit stage direction’ in use before 1560, as the ‘record of performance’, and reassesses it in this new light. This revised edition makes use of related research that has been produced since 1998, when the first edition was published by The Society for Theatre Research, and includes further discussion of the extent to which interpretative weight may be put on to the evidence produced by financial accounts and other civic documents. It also includes wider reflection on the authority of some post-1560 stage directions, improved discussion on the evidence concerning performances of travelling players in taverns, and consideration of subsequent work on special effects. The work concludes with an extensive set of appendices drawing together primary materials - some published here for the first time - including eye witness accounts and extracts from manuals and recipe books. A substantial expanded Glossary and numerous illustrations completes this uniquely illuminating resource. Features a new foreword by Peter Meredith (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Drama, University of Leeds, UK).

Edward II Christopher Marlowe Edited by Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern Univeristy, Illinois Vivid and daring in Marlowe’s time and ours, Edward II has captivated generations of readers, audiences and performers with its evocative portrayal of passionate friendship, kingly power and brutal retribution. Leading scholar Jeffrey Masten’s new edition of Marlowe’s great tragedy distils its importance for the history of queer sexuality, historical drama and modern performance alike. Drawing on new research into Edward’s earliest readers, as well as modern stage, film and operatic adaptations, Masten unpacks the play’s early meanings and modern resonances to spotlight its radical potential across a span of 400 years. This edition gives students a modernised, comprehensively annotated text with a detailed, illustrated introduction addressing Marlowe’s life and education, the play’s influence as a history play and its sexual, religious and national politics. Highlighted as well are Derek Jarman’s landmark queer film adaption of Edward II and celebrated performances by Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Tilda Swinton. Arden Early Modern Drama UK May 2026 • US May 2026 456 Pages • 22 bw illus HB 9781408133460 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781408133453 • £16.99 / $22.95 ePDF 9781408140109 • £15.29 / $20.65 ePub 9781408140116 • £15.209 / $20.65 The Arden Shakespeare

Arden Early Modern Drama editions offer the best in contemporary scholarship, providing a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary to guide the reader through a deeper understanding and appreciation of the play. This edition provides: - A clear and authoritative text - Detailed on-page commentary notes - A comprehensive, illustrated introduction to the play’s historical, cultural and performance contexts - A guide to reading an original printed page of the 1594 text - A bibliography of references and further reading

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THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE FOURTH SERIES

The next generation of Shakespeare’s plays, poems & sonnets

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Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare Edited by Curtis Perry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA & Ayanna Thompson, Arizona State University, USA The bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeare’s plays, this revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and cannibalism. Acts of war and sexual violence across borders and within families highlight the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, alongside the familial and literal blood which characterise early modern and contemporary performance. The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Titus Andronicus provides: - A critical introduction to the textual, cultural and performance history - An edition that is rooted in a Jacobean revival performance of the play The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series UK May 2026 • US May 2026 352 Pages • 22 bw illus HB 9781350078413 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350078406 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePDF 9781350078437 • £9.89 / $13.45 ePub 9781350078420 • £9.89 / $13.45 The Arden Shakespeare

- Detailed on-the-page notes explaining language, character and performance - A clear page layout with an easy-to-read font and single-column notes - Images of relevant productions, paintings and texts The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series includes a new edition of every Shakespeare play, the poems and sonnets. Each volume is edited afresh by a leading scholar specialising in cutting-edge research on performance, gender, sexuality and race. These editions cover everything you need to know as a student, teacher, researcher, theatre-maker or performer of Shakespeare’s works today.

Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Edited by Andrew James Hartley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA Tyranny, imperialism and political authority define Shakespeare’s enduring dramatic depiction of ruling power and regime change in ancient Rome. A touchpoint for characterising tyrannical leaders throughout the world, Julius Caesar has told a cautionary tale of the uneasy relationship between political leaders and citizens from the time it was first performed up to the 21st century. The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Julius Caesar provides: - A critical introduction to the play's textual, cultural and performance history - An edition that is rooted in the first known performance of the play in London, 1599 - Detailed on-the-page notes explaining language, character and performance The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series UK May 2026 • US May 2026 384 Pages • 18 bw illus HB 9781350110854 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350110861 • £9.99 / $12.95 ePDF 9781350110847 • £8.99 / $11.65 ePub 9781350110878 • £8.99 / $11.65 The Arden Shakespeare

- A clear page layout with an easy-to-read font and single-column notes - Images of relevant productions, paintings and texts The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series includes a new edition of every Shakespeare play, the poems and sonnets. Each volume is edited afresh by a leading scholar specialising in cutting-edge research on performance, gender, sexuality and race. These editions cover everything you need to know as a student, teacher, researcher, theatre-maker and performer of Shakespeare’s works today.

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The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad Jeff Jarvis, City University of New York, USA Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg’s movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting type one laborious letter at a time, and thus ignited an explosion of newspaper, book, and magazine empires. This is a tale populated with wondrous characters: tragic inventors, malign media moguls, hand-typesetters called the Swifts who turned their craft into a spectator sport, and authors and journalists who chronicled the turmoil of their time, their every UK July 2026 • US June 2026 336 Pages • 1 bw illus HB 9798765123959 • £17.99 / $25.00 ePDF 9798765123973 • £16.19 / $22.50 ePub 9798765123966 • £16.19 / $22.50 Bloomsbury Academic

word molded into metal type by what some viewed as a thinking machine. This revolution in media technology helped to propel Mark Twain into literary celebrity, but it also cost him his fortune – as well as his sense of humor and optimism. The era of the Linotype was a bridge between Twain’s Gilded Age with its tycoons of steam, steel, and wire and today’s Gilded Age with its barons of bits and AI. Its history provides an opportunity to reflect on how technology changes culture just as new technologies – the internet and artificial intelligence –manufacture their endless streams of words today.

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Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction Jerome Winter This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition. Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald’s work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald’s science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing UK September 2025 • US September 2025 248 Pages PB 9781666956825 • £17.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666956801 • £72.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216202325 • £64.80 / $99.00 ePub 9781978766969 • £64.80 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.

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Romantic Citizenship and the Transatlantic World Bordering on British Alison Cotti-Lowell Within the wide discursive arena of national identity in Romantic fiction, this book examines specific literary tropes and figures that consolidate and challenge the nascent, evolving concept of the British citizen. Alison Cotti-Lowell attends to the figure of the wanderer in the National Tale to reveal a mode of national belonging that was increasingly untethered to land, genealogy, and nativity in Romantic Britain. Across the Atlantic, the author surveys how tropes of the “virtual” and disembodiment became central to burgeoning articulations of proto-bureaucratic citizenship in the Anglo-American revolutionary context. The author analyzes sentimental novels of courtship and marriage in which struggles between dependence and independence reveal the citizenly potential of women living in Britain under the strictures and UK February 2026 • US February 2026 240 Pages PB 9781666973006 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666972986 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216260967 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978763906 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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structures of couverture. Cotti-Lowell examines literary repatriation to illuminate the relationship between Britain and its colonial East-Indian branch in the early post-abolition era. Through close literary-critical interpretation, this book connects Romantic fiction to matters of nationalism, individual subject formation, and bureaucracy to reveal how forms of citizenship and the citizenly subject were forged in literary form and discourse with close ties to the gothic register, across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the English-speaking North Atlantic World.

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Shakespeare Studies Volume 53

Edited by Diana E. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA & James R. Siemon Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual, and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to articles, Shakespeare Studies offers opportunities for extended intellectual exchange through its thematically focused forums and includes substantial reviews. An international editorial board maintains the quality of each volume so that Shakespeare Studies may serve as a reliable resource for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period—for research scholars as well as teachers, actors, and directors. Shakespeare Studies UK January 2026 • US January 2026 296 Pages • 8 bw PB 9781683939955 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781683939917 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9781683939931 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781683939924 • £81.00 / $108.00 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Volume 53 includes a Forum entitled "Marlowe Revisited: Text, Performance, Legacy" with contributions from Lucy Munro, Adam Zucker, Kerry Cooke, Hannah L. Wilson, Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Jade Standing, Kitamura Sae, Christine Varnado, and Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw. And featuring contributions from the Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America with articles by Andrew Hiscock; Laura Kolb; Jessica M. Rosenberg; Kelly Lehtonen and Kelsey Ridge.

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Volume 38

Edited by S. P. Cerasano Volume 38 of a continuing academic journal dedicated to research in the field of early drama and theatrical studies. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theater history to 1642. An internationally recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only of plays and early performance history, but of topics pertaining to cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of printing. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England UK January 2026 • US January 2026 272 Pages • 2 bw PB 9781683939900 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781683939863 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9781683939887 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781683939870 • £81.00 / $108.00 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

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Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45 Dublin’s Dadaist

Tobias William Harris, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences. Situating O'Brien's early work within a global context, the book uses new evidence of his collaborations to reimagine him as a networked writer. O'Brien drew upon experimental techniques to generate new categories of writing, rethink Irish culture and reach a wide audience. This study illuminates a network of cultural production around O'Brien, linking his work to English comic magazines, Dadaist photomontage, Expressionism, Central European theatre, and renowned writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka. Global Perspectives in Irish Literary Studies UK June 2026 • US June 2026 248 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350415874 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350415911 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350415881 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350415898 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

By re-examining Flann O'Brien within the context of the momentous global political and cultural crises that spurred avantgarde experimentation, the book also rewrites the cultural history of Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature Chris Holmes, Ithaca College, USA A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them. How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? In Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, Chris Holmes expands our understanding of how world literature engages with the most pressing crises of the 20th and 21st centuries by examining Ishiguro’s fascination with characters who are profoundly constrained in their ability to understand global systems to which they are subject. Rather than following the established pattern of so-called global novels, which crisscross the planet exhibiting a knowing cosmopolitanism, Literatures as World Literature UK June 2026 • US June 2026 192 Pages • 4 bw illus HB 9781501388422 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9781501388439 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9781501388453 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9781501388460 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Ishiguro’s fictional engagement with the world comes principally in the form of characters who are cut off from the global systems that abuse them. By examining the ways in which Ishiguro foregrounds the in-process thinking of those who fail to comprehend their place in the flow of politics, culture, and ideas, Holmes positions Ishiguro as the great chronicler of everyday lives, and as such, prepares a mode of reading world literature that questions the assumptions for how we live and think with others when each of us is deeply limited.

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Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940 Gerry Smyth, Liverpool John Moores University, UK In this book, cultural historian Gerry Smyth focuses on English genre fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exploring the ways in which popular novelists of the period engaged with debates relating to environment (England), culture (English language and literature) and identity (Englishness). In 16 case studies, the author covers examples of fantasy, science fiction, murder mystery and children’s stories in order to trace the prehistory of modern environmentalism, especially as experienced in a key 50-year period running up to the start of the Second World War. Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940 offers new approaches to a variety of well-loved English novels, describing an unlikely but important alternative genealogy for both modern English literature and modern ecocriticism. In these and other popular novels Smyth examines themes such as evolution, industrialisation, the growth of technology, UK June 2026 • US June 2026 248 Pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350412460 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9781350412477 • £23.99 / $32.95 ePDF 9781350412484 • £21.59 / $29.65 ePub 9781350412491 • £21.59 / $29.65 Bloomsbury Academic

Britain’s fading imperial status, assaults on traditional discourses of class, gender and sexuality, animal rights, artificial intelligence and war. The central focus is on the ways in which popular genre authors responded to a variety of changes that were overtaking the idea of England itself during this period. Accessible and innovative, this book reconfigures modern English literary history from an environmental perspective, insisting that questions of environment were always already embedded in the field of modern cultural debate.

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Unsettling Extinction Edited by Roman Bartosch, University of Cologne, Germany, Ursula K. Heise, UCLA, USA & Kate Rigby, University of Cologne, Germany Biodiversity loss threatens to transform the ecological foundations of all biological life on the planet, yet solutions to this crisis are fiercely contested. This book addresses extinction – along with climate change, the most urgent environmental crisis of the twenty-first century - by exploring species decline and conservation with a particular emphasis on divergent cultural framings, temporal scales, and media. Contributors explore what ethical guidelines underlie acceptable and unacceptable ways of interacting with plants and animals, what social, aesthetic, and affective perceptions and meanings are attributed to particular species, how humanGlobal Challenges in the Environmental Humanities UK June 2026 • US June 2026 288 Pages • 11 bw illus HB 9781350598478 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9781350598461 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9781350598485 • £22.49 / $31.45 ePub 9781350598492 • £22.49 / $31.45 Bloomsbury Academic

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nonhuman relations are construed as part of a particular social order and which species are considered worth conserving, and at what cost. Drawing on the disciplines of anthropology, gender studies, cultural geography, environmental history, philosophy, literary studies, media studies, and studies of religion, this book explores how the engagement with biodiversity loss challenges basic assumptions in these disciplines and opens up new avenues of thought and activism for shaping the multispecies communities of the future.

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Narrating Nuclear Disaster

Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima Hannah Klaubert, Linköping University, Sweden Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms as important resources for understanding the material, environmental and social fallout of nuclear disasters. In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring the uncertainty arising from events whose short- and long-term effects remain hard to oversee. By reading a wide corpus of post-Chornobyl and post-Fukushima literature from canonical texts by Christa Wolf, Julian Barnes and Ruth Ozeki to genre fiction such as thrillers and travelogues, the book offers a new way of thinking about nuclear narratives and nuclear culture more broadly. In doing so, it positions nuclear disaster Environmental Cultures

narratives within a wider context of “Anthropocene literature”, forging new connections between nuclear culture and

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contemporary ecocriticism.

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Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination Julia Ditter, Independent researcher Developing an innovative methodology that approaches Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective, this book puts key debates in Scottish studies, literary theory, critical border studies and the environmental humanities into dialogue to highlight the critical intervention that Scottish literature can make in current theoretical discussions about borders and the environment. Examining a range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present day, Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination proposes that the creative possibilities of literature allow Scottish literary works to unpack key issues relating to borders and environmental concerns. It includes analyses of works by Walter Scott, Jules Verne, Nan Shepherd, Willa Muir, John Buchan, Alasdair Gray, Sarah Moss and offers a combination of theoretical discussions and inEnvironmental Cultures UK June 2026 • US June 2026 208 Pages • 2 bw illus HB 9781350431027 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350431065 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350431034 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350431041 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic

depth case studies to show how writers reconfigure borders in connection with the Scottish environment. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Konstanz

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The Politics of Violence against Women in Climate Fiction Mona Ashour Mona Ashour offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how climate change and gender-based violence intersect in contemporary literature. Bridging together literary studies, environmental humanities, and gender studies, this book examines how climate fiction not only reflects ecological and social anxieties but critiques power, privilege, and systemic violence. Ashour draws upon narratives from both the Global North and Global South, including Margaret Atwood’s "Oryx and Crake," Arundhati Roy’s "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," Octavia Butler’s "Parable of the Sower," and Nnedi Okorafor’s "Who Fears Death" to trace how women’s bodies and lives become contested sites of vulnerability and resilience in times of environmental crisis. Politics, Literature, & Film UK May 2026 • US April 2026 218 Pages • 4 b/w illus PB 9781666960631 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666960617 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216264262 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978763074 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Through the framework of ecofeminism, posthumanism, and critical fabulation, it demonstrates how cli-fi narratives reimagine survival, reverse traditional othering, and highlight women’s agency in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic settings. Ultimately, The Politics of Violence Against Women in Climate Fiction positions climate fiction as a critical cultural force that not only registers the layered violence of climate collapse but also envisions alternative futures rooted in equity, care, and feminist resistance.

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Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s Autofiction “We Stand up and We Split” Michèle Bacholle This book breaks the silence on systemic violence against women in French society and showcases various forms of actual and/or literary rebellion. Blending auto-ethnography with the analysis of contemporary autofiction by French women writers and drawing portraits of other victims/rebels, Michèle Bacholle addresses physical, symbolic, cultural, institutional, and psychological forms of gender violence across different social spheres and within an intersectional framework (i.e., age, class, immigration, race). She engages with established authors (Nina Bouraoui, Sophie Chauveau, Chloé Delaume, Virginie Despentes, Annie Ernaux, UK February 2026 • US February 2026 320 Pages • 1 b/w image PB 9781666926989 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666926965 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216259657 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978765467 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Camille Laurens, Linda Lê, Léonora Miano, Delphine de Vigan) and emerging voices in French literature (Mathieu Deslandes and Zineb Dryef, Rokhaya Diallo, Laure Gouraige, Bebe Melkor-Kadior, Samira Sedira), and bridges personal and scholarly discourse in an innovative manner. #MeToo and its repercussions, as well as current social movements provide hope for deeper societal change, short of which, following Adèle Haenel’s lead, French women may have to “stand up and split.”

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Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation Pam Morris, Independent scholar, UK From the inhumanity of post-Brexit British immigration policy to the violent suppression of women’s freedom in Iran, to Russia’s territorial invasion of Ukraine, and to the violent conflagration engulfing Palestine, border hostilities seem everywhere characterised by fearful and toxic intolerance of what is deemed other. This book examines the writing of award-winning European novelists to suggest an alternative perspective, one that redresses time-sanctioned hierarchies of mind over body, of ideals over physical reality. It explores novelistic representations of power, war, sacrifice, heroism, national history and identity, all issues more conventionally viewed within a male consensus. The fiction offers a cultural and imaginative response to border conflicts of all kinds, ethical, bodily, religious, and geographical, often drawing upon the writers’ own personal experience of threatening divisions. Examining Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing UK April 2026 • US April 2026 224 Pages HB 9781350434059 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350434097 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350434066 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781350434073 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

works by Virginia Woolf, Jenny Erpenbeck, Olga Tokarczuk, Herta Müller, Anna Burns, Chika Unigwe, Maylis de Kerangal, Magda Szabó, Elena Ferranti, Alki Zei, Elif Shafak, and Oksana Zabuzhko, it uses an integrated interdisciplinary approach to combine literary readings with detailed historical and political understanding of cultural context.

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German Exile Biofiction

The Metaphorical Art of Intellectual Activism Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota, USA There were biofictions before the 20th century, but the literary form surged in the 1930s, especially among writers who fled Europe to escape the Nazis. What would be the best way to challenge and counteract the Nazis’ oppressive political agenda? This was a question those writers sought to answer. And as Michael Lackey argues, one answer revolved around the literary form of biofiction – or literature that fictionalizes and metaphorizes the life of a real person – which allowed exiled writers to identify root causes of political oppression and to propose healthier and more socially just ways of thinking and doing. By charting the rise, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction from Friedrich Nietzsche through Lion Feuchtwanger and

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Thomas Mann, German Exile Biofiction sets the stage for a more compelling analysis and understanding of the major

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biofictions from the 1930s, which foreground the Nazis’ Christian nationalist political agenda. Using the most up-to-date

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scholarship about biofiction and the Nazis’ Christian nationalism, this study offers new and more grounded approaches to the way biofiction functions in relation to the political and how it can be used to expose and combat dangerous political leaders like Hitler and the Nazis. But more than that, German Exile Biofiction shows how metaphorizing lives can enable readers and audiences today to counteract the dangers of contemporary Christian nationalisms.

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The Speaking Muse

Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750-1900 Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown University, USA How did German readers experience the German literary canon in the 18th and 19th centuries – through silent reading or by ear? The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750–1900 traces the impact of a forgotten culture of literary orality in the German-speaking world, from its early flourishing in the late 18th century to its popularization in the Wilhelmine era. In the wake of the “reading revolution” of the 18th century, oral reading practices proliferated alongside silent ones and became a central element in what Abigail Williams has called the “social life of books” for a diverse range of audiences and participants. Mary Helen Dupree shows how the culture of literary declamation, from recitation anthologies to declamatory concerts that New Directions in German Studies

combined music and spoken word, afforded new opportunities for interacting with literature for a variety of audiences,

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including women and marginalized “others,” while fostering innovations in publication, pedagogy, and performance. Working at the intersection of literary history, performance studies, sound studies, and print history, The Speaking Muse shows that the cultures of declamation and print in the 18th- and 19th-century German-speaking world were not strictly exclusionary, but were intertwined.

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Rethinking Feeling

On the Renegotiation of Emotions in German Novels at the Fin de Siècle Holly A. Yanacek, James Madison University, USA Holly A. Yanacek traces a new history of emotions through the German novel, showing how long before social media existed, literature and art played important roles in negotiating emotions with moral values as well as shaping public cultures of feeling. Rethinking Feeling examines the literary renegotiation of emotion at the Jahrhundertwende, the turn of the century, a period of rapid cultural change when 19th-century moral values were destabilized and ideas about how one should think and feel became contested topics of debate. The re-evaluation of moral values around 1900 was inspired by the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s writings influenced groups across the political and social spectrum in Wilhelmine Germany New Directions in German Studies UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages • 4 bw illus PB 9798765158401 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765158395 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765158425 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765158432 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

(1890-1918) and opened up spaces to think and to feel differently. This book builds upon interdisciplinary research in emotion studies, Bakhtinian discourse analysis, and narrative theory to develop a new way of reading emotion in narrative prose works. The literary analyses in Rethinking Feeling break new ground in interpreting influential works by Thomas Mann, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Theodor Fontane, and Hedwig Dohm as its analysis offers a new way of understanding the role of emotion in literary and cultural history.

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The Emprise of Poetry

Durs Grünbein, America, Antisemitism, and the Pursuit of Liberty Michael Eskin, Independent Scholar, US Michael Eskin offers an unprecedented view of the American-cum-Jewish discontents at the heart of modern and presentday German culture through the exemplary lens of the work of Durs Grünbein, the most widely translated and globally honored living German poet. Yet as Eskin outlines, Grünbein’s work contains a paradoxical and tension-filled twofold selfconstruction: as an idiosyncratically ‘American’ poet and Ezra Pound’s vociferously philosemitic heir, who merely happens to be writing in German, as it were, conjoined with an avidly anti-American German poet who writes emphatically, and not always savorily, as a German and a self-proclaimed heir to the legacies of Celan and Kafka – most notably, on matters American and Jewish. Against the foil of these tensions, Eskin traces and documents postwar German high culture’s inability to purge itself of ideological toxins that leach into the mainstream from centuries-old prejudices revolving around Germany’s New Directions in German Studies UK June 2026 • US June 2026 360 Pages HB 9798765125014 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9798765125021 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765125045 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765125038 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

love-hate bond with America as well as its ostensibly suspicion and antipathy toward Jews. Eskin’s deep dive into the ‘American’ Grünbein’s apparent philosemitism coupled with the German Grünbein’s antisemitically-inflected anti-Americanism reveals the fault lines underlying the complex and contradictory legacies and contexts of postwar German culture.

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The Health Humanities in German Studies Edited by Stephanie M. Hilger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines. In addition to surveying the current critical terrain in unparalleled depth, it also explores future directions that these fields may take. Organized around seven sections representing key areas of focus for both disciplines, this book provides important new insights into the intersections between Health Humanities, German Studies, and other fields of inquiry that have been gaining prominence over the past decade in academic and public discourse. In their contributions, the authors engage with disability studies, critical race studies, gender/embodiment studies, trauma studies, as well as animal/environmental studies. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 464 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350296183 • £140.00 / $190.00 PB 9781350296190 • £39.99 / $54.95 ePDF 9781350296206 • £126.00 / $171.00 ePub 9781350296213 • £126.00 / $171.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Viktor Shklovsky’s Involuntary Modernism Writing and Other Bodily Functions

Asiya Bulatova, Södertörn University, Sweden One of the founders of Russian Formalism, Viktor Shklovsky is a key figure within twentieth-century literary history. This book explores Shklovsky’s participation in early-Soviet debates in the relations between agency, volition, and bodily functions. Showing how his writings engage with new ideas about the body, this book focuses on those physiological influences that were believed to affect human agency, such as nutrition and metabolism, energy preservation and kinaesthetic economy, reflexes and automatic actions, and hormones associated with reproduction and sexuality. Drawing on the work Shklovsky published during his exile in Berlin in 1922-1923, this book argues that his immersion in one UK June 2026 • US June 2026 224 Pages PB 9781350422575 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350422612 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350422605 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350422599 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

of the centres of modernist culture resulted in writing that responded to restricted freedom of movement by exploring the limits and possibilities of control over the body and its functions. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it uncovers a critical yet neglected area of early-Soviet literary and cultural history. Its in-depth exploration of the centrality of the body represents a new perspective on Shklovsky's work and offers an original contribution to current scholarship on Russian Formalism and its place in the larger context of modernist culture and literary theory.

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Tunisian Literatures

Multilingual Realities, Genealogies, Testimonies Edited by Hanan Natour, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany & Mohamed-Salah Omri, University of Oxford, UK Unlike most national literatures in the Middle East and North Africa, Tunisian literature roams large across languages and modes. Yet, its study remains fragmented along linguistic divisions, selective and woefully underrepresented in the anglophone world. Tunisian Literatures aims to redress this imbalance and fill this gap not by moving away from canonical figures and case studies but by being inclusive, open and dynamic. The 13 chapters of this volume explore the multiple facets of Tunisian literature in the modern period, from the anti-colonial movement of the first half of the 20th century to the present, embracing its plurilinguality, its literary historical genealogies and testimonial functions during times of profound political and social change. The chapters cover poetry, fiction and drama UK June 2026 • US June 2026 240 Pages PB 9798765166383 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765166376 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765166406 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765166390 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

written in Arabic, French and variations of the local dialect (darija). The contributors approach Tunisian literatures from various angles: introducing concepts and formative authors and trends, and considering Tunisian literature in light of foundational historical and political events, such as the country´s independence in 1956 and the Uprisings of 2010-11, referred to in Tunisia as the Revolution (thawra). Together, these perspectives set the ground for a discussion of Tunisian literary voices within their significant geographies, locally and globally.

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In Conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva

New Methodologies for Race, Ethnic, and Decolonial Studies Edited by Julietta Hua, University of California, Davis, USA & Rashné Limki, University of Edinburgh, UK As a decolonial feminist philosopher, Denise Ferreira da Silva has pushed the fields of ethnic and feminist studies beyond traditional stakes in US-centered formulations of difference and inclusion. In Conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva is an interdisciplinary reading companion of Silva’s work – and its reckoning with the persistence of global racial violence – designed to help scholars, students, artists, and activists better engage in a global idea of race. While traditional scholarship around difference has often focused on describing difference as separation, segregation, and subjugation, Ferreira da Silva's art practice and philosophical writings attempt to think and teach "difference without separatability" The book is framed by original interviews with Ferreira da Silva on topics including Black Brazilian thought and feminist Black Literary and Cultural Expressions

studies, disorder and Afro-pessimism, citation politics and decoloniality, and Spinoza and physics. Contributors from a broad

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range of disciplines – such as comparative literature, creative writing, criminology, gender studies, and global studies – provide short reflections on Ferreira da Silva’s methods and arguments on these topics. This volume brings one of the most distinguished and consistent recent voices on the nature of the human to those interested in engaging questions of racial power and difference within their own disciplines.

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Writing Black Panther

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles Howard Rambsy II, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates’s presence in comic books from 2015-2023, focusing on his contributions as the writer for Black Panther. His ambitious 50-issue run of the Marvel comic coincided with ongoing and multifaceted debates concerning diversity and inclusion – what we might call representation struggles – at a key moment in the history of comics with respect to Black writers. Howard Rambsy II locates Coates’s contributions at the intersection of African American literary studies and comic book studies, showing a dynamic convergence that redefines both fields and broadens the scope of Black creativity. Writing Black Panther demonstrates key aspects of Coates’s comics narratives that overlap with major themes and topics in Black Literary and Cultural Expressions

African American literature. These include the depiction of multiple Black characters, exploration of intra-racial and interracial

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conflicts, excavations of Black histories, displays of Afrofuturist aesthetics, and attention to cultural geography. Coates stands out as a notable gateway figure who bridges multiple genres. His time as a comics writer constitutes an important, defining phase of his professional career. And as this book shows, Coates’s work on Black Panther went a long way to dispelling the myth that “diversity doesn’t sell” in the comic book industry.

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Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement Edited by Cynthia Davis, Jacinto College & Verner D. Mitchell, University of Memphis The Black Arts Movement combined innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts, and theatre with a heightened consciousness of black agency and autonomy and with the radical politics of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Muslims, and the Black Panthers. Between the late 1950s and the end of the 1970s, the movement produced some of America’s most original and controversial artists and intellectuals, including Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Larry Neal, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, John Coltrane, and Archie Shepp. Although the movement began in New York City, with the Umbra Poets Workshop and the Negro Ensemble Company on the Lower East Side, and Baraka’s Black Arts Repertory Theatre in Harlem, it quickly spread to Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco. In Chicago, the movement was disseminated by Hoyt Fuller and John Johnson who edited and published Negro Digest (later Black World), an important venue for the new artists. Although all the creative arts were represented, the UK June 2026 • US June 2026 626 Pages • 30 photos PB 9798216391654 • £39.99 / $54.95 HB 9798216391616 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePDF 9798216391630 • £117.00 / $157.50 ePub 9798216391623 • £117.00 / $157.50 Bloomsbury Academic

emphasis on spoken word poetry and jazz helped lay the groundwork for contemporary rap and hip-hop.

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Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels Ahmet Atas Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels presents a critical literary analysis of narrative forms used in Kurdish novels that articulate loss, mourning, and melancholia. Based on a range of perspectives on questions of loss, mourning, and melancholia, this study elucidates how melancholy is appropriated as a multi-functional literary device by Kurdish novelists to articulate a broad spectrum of subjectivities often mediated by political and socio-cultural reality. Adapting an interdisciplinary approach, Ahmet Atas situates Kurdish melancholy narratives within broader scholarly discussions on loss and melancholia. Atas demonstrates how melancholy is utilized as an effective artistic device by Kurdish writers to stage not only the grief of an oppressed nation, but its political and Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations

cultural resistances. Providing an original case study, this book illuminates how melancholy literature acquires unique political and cultural functions, missions, and meanings in contrasting colonial and postcolonial settings.

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The Poetics of Agency

Action and Form in Post-War US Poetry Tymek Woodham, University College London, UK Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic form in the post-war United States rejected the model of the indivisible subject as the principal locus of artistic creation, and in so doing reframed period-defining questions surrounding the limits and possibilities of human agency. In the decades following the Second World War, poetry in the U.S. was marked by a resurgence of manifesto culture, where practitioners and scholars from a range of political persuasions debated fiercely the common presumptions underpinning the practice and interpretation of poetry. These debates were all primarily concerned with the agency of poetic writing and performance, including what cognitive or affective processes particular formal arrangements can be said to enact within a Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics UK April 2026 • US April 2026 272 Pages • 1 bw illus PB 9781350417267 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350417229 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350417236 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350417243 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

reader, or how different approaches to the writing and reading of poetry might encourage more desirable modes of acting in the world. Looking specifically at the work of Charles Olson, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara and Denise Levertov, this book asks what role poetry plays in conceptualising human agency, and what interdisciplinary place the practice of poetry has within questions typically framed by the disciplines of philosophy and the social sciences.

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Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction Gender, Race, and Genre

Edited by Ruth Maxey, University of Nottingham, UK & Daniel Robert King, University of Leicester, UK Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction derives its breadth and focus from an international range of contributors who examine the significant ways in which U.S. cultural texts travel across various contested borders. Reading a rich range of 19th-century, 20th-century, and contemporary American literature and film, contributors explore questions of genre, race, gender, production, circulation, and legacy. With original essays by leading scholars from the U.K., Ireland, Israel, and the U.S.A., this book achieves an ambitious historical and intellectual sweep through new research on the rise of American print technologies and early space travel novels in the 19th century to re-readings of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here, the Black American detective novel, and UK May 2026 • US May 2026 240 Pages PB 9798765125243 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765125236 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765125267 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765125274 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

the work of Saul Bellow and John Updike. And with a further focus on the afterlife of Shirley Jackson’s writing and key fictions of America by contemporary U.S., Canadian and British writers and filmmakers – Ted Chiang, Denis Villeneuve, Bharati Mukherjee and Maggie O’Farrell – Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction breaks new ground across a host of fields from literary studies and the history of the book to adaptation theory and postcolonial studies.

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Excavating the Historical Memory of the American Revolution Trauma and Melancholy in Anthon's Notes Shawn Thomson In this book, Shawn Thomson excavates Charles Anthon’s personal notes to reveal revolutionary memory and the presence of historical melancholy in this era of radical turnover and shifting alliances. In these notes, Charles Anthon recorded his personal inquiries into all aspects of life in the Loyalist stronghold of Staten Island from October 13, 1850 to January 8, 1853. Through this written record, Anthon provides a counter history of the Loyalists of Staten Island to the grand narrative of the Patriots of the American Revolution. Through a close reading of Anthon’s notes, Shawn Thomson examines how these personal records and historical research hold the places, ruins, artifacts, and, most significantly, the collective and personal memory of Staten Island Loyalists and New Jersey Whigs. UK July 2025 • US July 2025 320 Pages PB 9781666946277 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666946253 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765150580 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781666946260 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Through this close reading, Thomson highlights the indelible link between landscape and memory and offers the reader a sense of the Loyalist melancholy of their abandonment on the day of the British evacuation.

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Disability and Rurality in American Literature Ecosomatic Pastoralism Matthew J. C. Cella Matthew J.C. Cella examines the ways in which contemporary American writers deploy disability in order to deconstruct American pastoralism. An essential tenet of pastoralism is that encounters with rural landscapes quicken the human imagination by heightening awareness of and appreciation for the natural world. This study examines the counterpart to this formulation by underscoring the ways in which disability—as concept and experience—complicates pastoralism’s exaltation of rurality and rural experience. The texts examined in this book ultimately push back against the conventional pastoral ideal by exposing the UK February 2026 • US February 2026 226 Pages PB 9781666965148 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666965124 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216253822 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978769007 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

ways in which dominant social constructions of rurality work to create disability. Additionally, many of the writers Cella analyzes contribute to a counter-rurality that is ultimately more complex and inclusive than what is featured in conventional American pastoralism. Ecosomatic pastoralism emphasizes the importance of locating an alignment between embodiment and emplacement through the space found between individual bodies and the landscapes they inhabit as well as the human and nonhuman bodies they interact with. Ultimately, this book examines literary texts that challenge notions of rurality that proclaim that certain ways of being-in-the-world are more “natural” than others.

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Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown The Monthly Magazine and Other Writings, 1789–1800

Edited by Mark L. Kamrath, Philip Barnard, University of Kansas, USA, Matthew Pethers, Leonard von Morzé & Hilary Emmett The second volume in the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown assembles for the first time his major periodical writings from the period when he was also producing his famous novels. All the pieces he contributed to The Columbian Magazine and The Weekly Magazine are joined by an expansive collection of stories and essays from The Monthly Magazine, which he also edited between 1799 and 1800. Texts offering major insights into Brown’s ideas about the human imagination, American society, and the art of fiction such as “The Rhapsodist,” “The Man at Home,” and “The Difference Between History and Romance,” are complemented by dozens of other works, Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown UK February 2026 • US February 2026 776 Pages • 6 bw illus PB 9798216376934 • £54.99 / $74.95 HB 9798216376897 • £150.00 / $200.00 ePDF 9798216376910 • £135.00 / $180.00 ePub 9798216376903 • £135.00 / $180.00 Bucknell University Press

many never before attributed to him, covering topics ranging from the theatre and classical literature to racial identity and geographical knowledge. Each edited text provides detailed information concerning publication history and provenance, along with extensive scholarly annotation. The editors of the volume include two additional essays: "A Historical Essay," offering detailed contextualization of the post-Revolutionary cultural milieu from which Brown’s magazine writing emerged, and "A Textual Essay," offering new bibliographical information about the texts and explains editorial protocols for the volume.

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Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony Kushner's Political Plays Arnab Ray Arnab Ray studies the politics in Tony Kushner’s political plays as a representation of the New Left politics that speak for marginalized groups. Ray argues in that Kushner has both displayed the imminent ideological emptiness in the world as the millennium approaches its end, and written about the path toward salvaging the wreckage of human history to chart a new path for humankind in the new millennium. This book studies the complex and varied nuances of Kushner’s political thought in what the author sees as Kushner’s ‘political’ plays.

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The Performance and Poetry of Regina José Galindo Art as Event Mark Eccles This book presents an analysis of Regina José Galindo’s performance and poetry within a highly developed theoretical framework. Eccles explores the connection between art, event, and the affects that permeate throughout each of Galindo’s performances, channeling the foundations of Alain Badiou’s philosophical writings, then mapping the convergence points between political theory, performance, and the social order. Through a scholarly focus on the event, Eccles utilizes Galindo's art to propose a new category within aesthetics: art as “evental.” Through this, the author challenges interpretations of the communal understanding of reality, the limits of social space and temporality. UK July 2025 • US July 2025 224 Pages • 19 bw illus PB 9781666975130 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666975116 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765155219 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781666975123 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas

Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish Languages and Literatures Remy Attig, Bowling Green Statue University, USA Connecting the metaphor of labor to the human life cycle, Remy Attig introduces the notion of literary doulas. These doulas accompany a community as a body of literature is born (akin to the doula as midwife), or, in the case of Judeo-Spanish, writes the language as a form of linguistic palliative care for a community whose historical language is facing imminent death (the death doula). Presenting three case studies of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish, the first part of Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas places the emergence of these languages in their respective geographies and contexts. Attig discusses the work of authors and literary doulas, including Susana Chávez-Silverman, Gloria Anzaldúa, Fabián Severo, and Matilda KoénUK April 2026 • US April 2026 176 Pages HB 9798765111000 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9798765110997 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765111024 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9798765111017 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Sarano. The framework of linguistic labor relates the creation of a literary corpus in an undervalued language context to other forms of domestic or gendered labor, often the responsibility of women and queer people. Attig then places these literatures and theories in discussion with scholarship in translinguistics, queer theories, and translation studies. By applying the notion of translinguistics to case studies that challenge understandings of the frontiers between languages, Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas models ways that we can discuss real-world linguistic practices as aspects of culture and identity.

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Pilosity, Prejudice, and Passion in The Tale of Old Bearded Achbor by Yaakov ben El'azar of Toledo Tovi Bibring, Bar-Ilan University, Israel In Pilosity, Prejudice, and Passion in The Tale of Old Bearded Achbor by Yaakov ben El’azar of Toledo, Tovi Bibring argues that behind the restless parody and the sour tone of the tale, lies a fierce discourse of hate toward the Other, incarnated as a black woman, as well as an insistent alarm regarding the threat of assimilation. Following an enticing fully annotated translation of an overwhelming medieval Hebrew composition featuring a pathetic sermon, a hedonist feast, a love liaison, violent shaming, and murder, Bibring artfully explores their significances through a variety of chapters. From highlighting how hair symbolism and color symbolism construe dangerous prejudices, to suggesting that Achbor is a symbolic incarnation of a new Balaam, the author, through close-readings of selected excerpts, draws connections to the broader medieval and classical context. By highlighting possible literary correspondences, she sheds insightful light on this mysterious tale. This Studies in Medieval Literature

book stands as a testament to the richness of medieval European Hebrew culture, making it a must-read for scholars and

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Trauma and Tears in The Book of Margery Kempe Rachel Scoggins Employing the use of trauma theory, Rachel Scoggins uncovers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spirituality present within the autobiography of Margery Kempe. Scoggins argues that Kempe’s work illustrates a situation where spirituality and sexuality co-exist in her devotion to God. In her autobiography, Kempe frames her religious journey through images of the body and female sexuality with the aim to take agency of both her own bodily autonomy and her religious expression. Eventually, Kempe reclaims her voice and control by leaning into the intersection of spirituality and sensuality and embracing female agency as she navigates male-dominated religious spaces. Trauma and Tears in The Book of Margery Kempe presents Kempe not as a hysterical or hypocritical figure, but a woman with an interesting and important view of everyday spiritual engagement through the eyes of a secular Studies in Medieval Literature UK February 2026 • US February 2026 194 Pages PB 9781666932386 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666932362 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216262824 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978761643 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature Caleb D. Molstad Through an analysis of vernacular metaphors of food and consumption for religious experience and theology in late-fourteenth and early fifteenth century England, Caleb D. Molstad explores what that language reveals about late-medieval religion during a time of swift religious and linguistic change.

In the move from Latin to Middle English, medieval authors gave vibrant expression to religious ideas through the emerging literary language, a phenomenon Nicholas Watson has termed “vernacular theology.” Molstad places focus on poetic and prose works including William Langland’s Piers Plowman, Nicholas Love’s A Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, and Studies in Medieval Literature UK February 2026 • US February 2026 216 Pages PB 9781666979725 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666979701 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216262282 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978760622 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Walter Hilton’s Scale of Perfection, Pearl-Poet’s Cleanness, and A Ladder of Foure Ronges. Alimentary metaphors not only make religious concepts more accessible to a non-educated, lay audience, the language of food and consumption alters the shape of the religious content communicated through it. This book employs cognitive linguistics and food studies to explore the transcultural, sociological, anthropological, and historical significance of the food and foodways behind the metaphorical language and the theological transformations the metaphors produce.

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Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative Chad Schrock, Lee University, USA Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author. Chad Schrock unravels Chaucer’s Tales in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the Canterbury Tales are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry – its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement New Directions in Religion and Literature UK May 2026 • US May 2026 208 Pages HB 9781350417410 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350417458 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350417427 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350417434 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions. Schrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible’s authority includes the literary as subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer’s deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety. Within Chaucer’s tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.

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Theologies of Pain

Literary Bodies and Afflicted Forms in Puritan New England Lucas Hardy, Youngstown State University, USA With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, colonial violence, and painful religious transformation quickly emerged, enabling new forms of testimonial writing in prose and poetry. Investigating a broad transatlantic archive of religious literature, historical medical science, and philosophies of sensation, this book explores how Puritan America contemplated pain and ascribed meaning to it in writing. By weaving the experience of pained bodies into popular public discourse, Hardy shows how Puritans imagined the pained Christian body, whilst simultaneously marginalizing and vilifying those who expressed suffering by different measures, including Indigenous Americans and unorthodox colonists. Focusing on pain as it emerged from spaces of inchoate New Directions in Religion and Literature UK May 2026 • US May 2026 232 Pages HB 9781350400368 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350400405 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350400375 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350400382 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

settlement and colonial violence, he provides new understandings of early American nationalism and connected racial tropes which persist today.

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Frankenstein Retold

Literary Adaptation in Contemporary Fiction Daniel Cook, University of Dundee, UK Placing Frankenstein in the critical frameworks of book history and secondary authorship, this book explores the increasing array of book-based reworkings of, and sequels to, the novel that up to this point, have been largely ignored. Covering novels, novellas and short stories across a range of genres from romance to YA fiction, Frankenstein Retold examines a broad range of these texts in different purviews and demonstrates their own critical value as well and pertinence for understanding new approaches to literary adaptation in theory and practice more broadly. A testament to the vitality of the original story more than two centuries after it first appeared, Daniel Cook explores works from a huge range of writers such as Peter Ackroyd, Jeanette Winterson, Ahmed Saadawi, Suzanne Weyne, Jon Skovron, Gothic Legacies UK April 2026 • US April 2026 232 Pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350501966 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350501959 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350501973 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350501980 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

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William A. Chandler, Susan Heyboer Okeefe, Hailey Bailey, Laurie Sheck, Edward M. Erdelac, Fred Saberhagen and Kate Horsley among many others. With a large body of scholarship already exploring the rich cinematic, transmedial and cultural afterlife of Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein Retold offers a bridge between literary studies notions of book history and authorship, and media studies approaches to transmedia storytelling, between fan writing and media production histories.

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The 1950s

A Decade of Modern British Fiction Edited by Nick Bentley, Keele University, UK, Alice Ferrebe, Liverpool John Moores University, UK & Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London, UK How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the ‘Angry Young Men’, an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. The Decades Series

A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R.

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Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.

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The 1960s

A Decade of Modern British Fiction Edited by Philip Tew, Brunel University, United Kingdom, James Riley, University of Cambridge, UK & Melanie Seddon, University of Portsmouth, UK How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the “swinging decade”: a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary experimental and science fiction writers. The Decades Series

A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, this volume covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt,

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Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.

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The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction Edited by Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London, UK, Luke Seaber, University College London, UK & Elinor Taylor, University of Westminster, UK With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on ‘the Auden generation’, this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and cultural democratization that characterized the decade. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine The Decades Series UK February 2026 • US February 2026 320 Pages HB 9781350079144 • £130.00 / $175.00 PB 9781350619913 • £39.99 / $54.95 ePDF 9781350079151 • £35.99 / $49.45 ePub 9781350079168 • £35.99 / $49.45 Bloomsbury Academic

Burdekin, Agatha Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.

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Autobiography, Fan Fiction, and Education Edited by Nicola Robertson & Yueling Chen This book illuminates the relationship between autobiography, fan fiction, and education via philosophical, pedagogical, and formative perspectives. How might we consider autobiography and fan fiction writing to be educational? How can we harness the potential of fan fiction writing for pedagogical use? How does the practice of creating and consuming fan fiction/autobiographical texts support the formation of identity? This book brings together contributors from across the world to consider the answers to these questions, and more, with the resulting interpretations and perspectives offering something novel in the linking of these three concepts. Separated into three distinct sections, the chapters in this book look first at philosophical perspectives, Education and Popular Culture UK October 2025 • US October 2025 216 Pages PB 9781666969498 • £17.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666969474 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216196761 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978766679 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

moving on to pedagogical approaches, and, finally, the role of fan fiction and autobiography in the formation of individual and social identities. The eclectic mix of arguments, methods, and styles aims to provide insights to readers interested in life writing, popular culture and media studies, and those engaged in the multiple sub-disciplines of education studies.

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Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature The Material Sacred

Emily McAvan, Monash University, Australia What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this century’s most significant writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Mohsin Hamid, Michael Chabon, Howard Jacobson and Don DeLillo, Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred argues that contemporary social and cultural forms, most especially those of 21st century literature, are marked by what Emily McAvan calls a material sacred. Placing Christian, Jewish and Muslim writers in conversation with the new materialisms, this book shows how secular and sacred mix unpredictably in contemporary writing. In this important contribution to the understanding of religion, materialism UK May 2026 • US May 2026 224 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350280373 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350280410 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350280380 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350280397 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

and literature, McAvan maps new territory, arguing that the material sacred shows us that the human and non-human, the divine and the profane, have been interwoven from the start.

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Philip Roth and the Body

Jewishness, Gender, and Race Joshua Lander, Independent Scholar, UK To what extent can the leaky, porous bodies in Philip Roth’s fiction be read as symbols of resistance against anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism? Philip Roth and the Body questions the symbolic functionality of the corporeal in Roth’s main works of fiction, particularly as sites of gender and racial identification for Roth’s protagonists. In his recurrent employment of the abject, Roth throws into doubt the body as a coherent, stable entity, undermining his male characters’ determinations of gendered and racial otherness through his porously unstable bodies. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 184 Pages HB 9798765104842 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9798765104835 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765104866 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9798765104859 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Joshua Lander draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and his theory of the ‘conceptual Jew’ to argue that Roth’s fiction is yoked together by a shared interest in how anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jewish difference – centered around the body – pervasively inform American Jewish identities. The book also contends that Roth resists American white nationalism by transforming the body’s ejaculations, excretions, secretions, and expulsions into symbols of difference that he repeatedly ties to Jewishness. At the same time, this study highlights how Roth's novels, through his focus on Jewish men, risk the reification of America’s sexist social structures as they intersect with the very racism Roth seeks to undermine.

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Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 Oliver Haslam, Harlaxton College, University of Evansville, UK Shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 responds to existing studies of literary minimalism by pursuing three original and interrelated objectives. It provides a more inclusive and precise definition of minimalism that enables further inquiry into the mode. It also exposes the presence of minimalism beyond critical demarcations that attempt to limit the aesthetic to a particular school, medium, movement, form or decade. Finally, it argues that writers of American literary minimalism are uniquely privileged in their ability to formalize precarity and threatening cultural currents into the fragile construct that is ordinary life. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 216 Pages HB 9798765109397 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9798765109403 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765109427 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9798765109410 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Building upon theories of affect and the everyday, Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 analyses minimalist aesthetics within the works of canonical minimalists alongside writers more frequently associated with other movements. Through readings of Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo, among others, and cultural phenomena ranging from sedation to telephony, this book exposes the persistence and political importance of minimalism within American literature from the 20th century into the 21st.

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Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature Bodies of Knowledge

Shannon Lambert, Ghent University, Belgium Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety, and joy shape scientific persons, practices, and products. This book brings into dialogue close readings of scientific writing and contemporary literary works by authors like Jeanette Winterson, Richard Powers, Hanya Yanagihara, Thalia Field, and Jenny Offill. Combining narrative and affect studies, it uses formal strategies such as moving metaphor, visceral or affective description, plot-level analogy, contraction, and rhythm to engage with western scientific epistemologies, which still tends towards the impassive, universal, and objective. Explorations in Science and Literature UK June 2026 • US June 2026 280 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350425415 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350425453 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350425422 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781350425439 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

While each chapter focuses on a different field (or fields) of science, all foreground bodies—human and nonhuman—as a way of exploring knowledge production. Through close readings, the book argues that select ‘scientific stories’ raise important questions about how ‘knowledge’ is defined and who (and what) is invited into its processes of production.

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Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons? A Primitivist Phenomenology

Pilar Martinez Benedi & Ralph James Savarese, Grinnell College, USA Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sought to reclaim the fluid world of the sensory, with its precategorical and radically egalitarian impulses. By studying this previously underexamined facet of Melville’s work, this book offers an essential corrective to the “pathology paradigm,” which demonizes departures from a neurological norm and feasts on pejorative categorization. The neurodiversity movement arose as a response to how so-called “mental disorders” have been described, understood, and treated. Unlike standard neuroscientific or psychiatric investigation, Melville’s work doesn’t strive to explain typical Explorations in Science and Literature UK April 2026 • US April 2026 200 Pages HB 9781350360860 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350360907 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350360877 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350360884 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic

functioning through the negative and, in the process, to shore up a regime of normalcy. To the contrary, it exploits the lack of congealed diagnoses in the 19th Century, much more neutrally asking the question: what can an atypical body-mind do? The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded in part by Grinnell College.

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Ambient Stories in Practice and Research Digital Writing in Place Edited by Amy Spencer From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience. In so doing, it unpacks how situated literary experiences delivered through text, audio and sensor-based delivery offer distinctive new forms of reading and listening and lay the ground for a new poetics of situated writing practices. Exploring an experimental, practice-based approach to digital literary forms and its emerging poetics, this book critically examines the ecology of ambient literature from a range of perspectives, including researchers and practitioners working in the fields of digital writing, sonics, visual art, performance, literary studies, creative writing and computer science. Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures UK June 2026 • US June 2026 216 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350234130 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350234178 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350234147 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350234154 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

Essays look towards the emerging field of ambient literature, drawing on contributors' own background and interests. Contributors study topics ranging from ecological and climatic challenges through critical and creative cartographies to understanding the metaphorical work of 'ambient' as a form embedded in the social, technological and literary. Including practice-based essays from writers, artists and practitioners on the use of data to write poetry and the position of the writer as maker, this book's combination of practice-led approaches and interdisciplinary research makes it a valuable and varied contribution to the field of digital writing.

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Metamodernism and the Postdigital in the Contemporary Novel Spencer Jordan, University of Nottingham, UK Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Egan and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book provides an innovative and original analysis of the interdependencies between digital technology and metamodernism through a detailed study of the contemporary novel. We are currently living through a period of profound rupture, in which the way the world is perceived is undergoing significant change. Just as the interplay between capitalism and technology hastened the evolution of modernism and postmodernism, then so too are those same forces now taking us into uncharted waters. In an increasingly fragile world, in which the very existence of humankind is threatened, it is vital that we begin to understand this new landscape. Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures UK May 2026 • US May 2026 248 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350281028 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350281066 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350281035 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781350281042 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001 A World Elsewhere

Claire Warwick, Durham University, UK Setting out a history of cyberspace and its relationship with the discipline that was to become digital humanities, this book is an account of an often-forgotten period of internet history in the 1990s when this medium was in its infancy. It provides a detailed account of the concepts of ‘cyberspace’ and the ‘virtual’, which were characteristic of a perception that using the internet allowed users to enter a separate space from everyday life- a world elsewhere. In doing so, it argues that this libertarian idea of the internet framed it as a new frontier, where the rules of the everyday world did not and should not apply, and where the individual could find freedom. These early norms and the regrettable lack of regulation that was a consequence of them, this book argues, contributed to many of current issues with internet media. including of toxic Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures

communication, disinformation and over-commercialisation.

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Marketing Chinese Children's Books Paratext and the Politics of Authorship

Frances Weightman, University of Leeds, UK Focusing on the paratextual elements of contemporary Chinese literature written for children such as author photographs, this book reveals the political constraints on the position of popular children's author in the People's Republic of China after the Cultural Revolution. Taking the publications of Cao Wenxuan (the first Chinese recipient of the Hans Christian Anderson Award), Yang Hongying, Shen Shixi and Gerelchimeg Black Crane as case studies, Frances Weightman considers how the marketing of these authors presents them as academic and political authorities to be emulated and trusted, how they are demonstrative of the commercialism in children's literature and what they expose about the different ways in which popular authors are Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature UK June 2026 • US June 2026 216 Pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350273597 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350273559 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350273566 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350273573 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

promoted based on their gender, nationality and ethnicity. Also surveying the uses of animals in Chinese literature and the issues relating to language and translation when these works are promoted throughout the West, this is a timely study of the construct of authorship coinciding with the rapid expansion of children's literature publishing in China and its reception on the world stage.

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Empire and Race in Enid Blyton’s Fiction

Deconstructing Whiteness and Modern Editing Practices Siobhan Morrissey, University of Galway, Ireland Looking into the implications of the changes made to Enid Blyton’s children’s stories to omit problematic passages surrounding race and imperialism, this book examines her fiction in its original and revised forms to assess the evolution of her work against evolving political, imperial, and cultural developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. With detailed explorations of Blyton’s highly successful magazine Enid Blyton’s Sunny Stories, the Adventure and The Secret Seven series among her other popular works, Siobhan Morrissey contextualises Blyton’s fiction within multiple literary and historical contexts, including 20th-century magazines, the Second World War, imperial adventure fiction, the decline of the British Empire and contemporary conceptions of race and whiteness in children’s literature. Calling upon critical race theory, white and postcolonial studies, the book models how these ideas can be applied to literature studies and analyses the imperial, UK June 2026 • US June 2026 224 Pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350465176 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350465138 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350465145 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350465152 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

racial hierarchies of Blyton’s texts and how these can be remedied. Then, taking a broader survey of how contemporary children’s publishers are amending authors’ works from Roald Dahl to P. L. Travers to Hugh Lofting and to what effect, the book makes a case for an intervention in current editing practices and a reappraisal of how work should be censored and rebranded.

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Sexual Violence in Comics

The Ethics of Visualizing Trauma Lee Okan An examination of how comics represent, confront, and sometimes perpetuate gendered violence. Lee Okan argues that comics, with their hybrid form of image and text, possess an ability to express the unspeakable dimensions of trauma while also raising ethical questions about spectatorship, representation, and storytelling. Through close analysis of contemporary and independent comics, as well as anthology collections, this book shows how artists navigate the tension between testimony and spectacle, visibility and exploitation.

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Rather than treating comics as an isolated medium, Okan situates these works within broader cultural and media discourses on sexual violence, arguing that comics shape and are shaped by feminist activism, visual culture, and reader response. Sexual Violence in Comics traces how creators reframe the terms of witness, challenge dominant narratives, and reclaim narrative authority, particularly in the wake of the #MeToo movement and beyond.

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Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture

Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century Edited by Simon Bacon Exploring depictions of zombies across literature, poetry, comics, television, film and video games, Simon Bacon brings together this timely intervention into how zombies enable speculation about future modes of being in a changing world and represent the fluid notion of ‘old’ and ‘new’ normals. With each chapter moving beyond traditional readings of the undead, Zombie Futures situates the zombie as an evolving cultural imaginary at the centre of discourses around how human cognition and embodiment are effected by global realities such as consumerism, new technologies, climate change and planetary degeneration. Structured around contagious partisan ideologies, ecological sickness, mental health crisis and the very literal COVID-19 UK May 2026 • US May 2026 280 Pages HB 9781350285491 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350285538 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350285507 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350285514 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

virus, this book establishes how the zombie figure might manifest post-human and post-normative futures. Works featured include graphic novels and comics like The West + Zombies, Crossed and Endzeit, the South Korean series and films Kingdom, Train to Busan and Peninsula, The Last of Us and the Resident Evil game franchises, Bollywood horror anthology Ghost Stories, Joss Whedon's Serenity, Cargo and literature such as The Girl with All the Gifts, the fiction of Stephen Graham Jones and Ryan Mecum's Zombie Haiku. In a time when popular culture and scholarship has been overrun with the undead, this original study offers a refreshing look at the zombie and what it can tell us about about our world going into and emerging from global catastrophe.

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Famous First Impressions

The Power of Perfect Opening Lines Paul Volponi, Author, journalist, educator A unique exploration of opening lines from classic literature to modern music. You never get a second chance to make a first impression. In that spirit, Famous First Impressions: The Power of Perfect Opening Lines revels in the greatest openings from novels, plays, poems, songs, films, speeches, and more. Bestselling author Paul Volponi examines how talented writers and artists instantly gain our attention, often in just a few words, and dissects each line’s style, value, and impact. Exploring themes such as crime and punishment, dystopian landscapes, identity, science fiction, and the natural world, Volponi reveals the interconnectedness of opening lines ranging from Emily UK September 2025 • US September 2025 240 Pages • 11 sidebars HB 9798881803612 • £20.00 / $30.00 ePDF 9798765165157 • £18.00 / $27.00 ePub 9798881803629 • £18.00 / $27.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Dickinson’s I’m Nobody! Who are You? to Taylor Swift’s Blank Space. Famous First Impressions features individuals as diverse as Toni Morrison, Adele, Edgar Allan Poe, Don McLean, Maya Angelou, William Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, Anne Frank, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., introducing readers to new genres and writers while also providing fascinating insight into those they already love. And with science fiction and drama discussed in the same breath as classic rock and poetry, this book is sure to inspire less-than-enthusiastic readers and booklovers alike.

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Complexities of Anger

Literary and Cultural Perspectives Edited by Aytül Özüm, Hacettepe University, Turkey Anger is not simply an affect; it is a complicated and complex emotion that is culturally constructed and at the same time constructive of cultural, political, ecological and even psychological change and awareness. Complexities of Anger examines anger in 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone literature, including texts by D. H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, Margaret Atwood, and Bernadine Evaristo, arguing that anger can be a productive agent of correction, restoration, and destruction. In reading various literary representations – in postcolonial, gendered, and even posthumanist settings – the gathered essays show that anger can provoke and stimulate change between the author, the text, and its readers, examining social, political, domestic, private or environmental contexts. UK May 2026 • US May 2026 272 Pages PB 9798765132241 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765132258 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798765132272 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9798765132265 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Complexities of Anger goes beyond the existing literature on anger in literary studies, showing that anger becomes a product of change in relational spheres, while the literary impact of represented anger becomes a productive force within the text’s inner literary dynamics. These essays also bring a fresh pair of eyes by setting previous approaches in dialogue with the cultural and environmental problems the world faces today.

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Japanese Forms in American Poetry Beyond Haiku

Edited by Ce Rosenow Analyzing the poetic forms of haibun, linked verse, senryu, and tanka, this collection argues that these traditional Japanese methods have established themselves in American poetry. Beginning with its Japanese origins and continuing through its development in the United States, the contributors demonstrate how these poetic forms have existed alongside haiku for more than a century while drawing attention to their use within contemporary poetry. Over time, they have gained popularity among both haiku and non-haiku poets alike, leading to a wide variety of innovative approaches. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 128 Pages PB 9781666964240 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666964226 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePDF 9798216251866 • £58.50 / $81.00 ePub 9781978766334 • £58.50 / $81.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture Edited by Anne-Marie Evans, York St John University, UK & Sarah Trott, York St John University, UK Academic work on the First Lady has tended to be historical or biographical in approach, but The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture takes the field in a new direction by focusing instead on representations of the First Lady. It explores how real and imaginary American First Ladies have been represented, reconsidered, and re-imagined by different writers, filmmakers, and fashion designers. Despite her apparent marginal position at the periphery of US politics, as this collection shows, representations of the First Lady have become increasingly significant on the cultural stage in the 21st century. Using a range of feminist, cultural, media, postmodern, race, and communication-based perspectives, the contributors suggest new ways of understanding the First Lady and the complexities of her office. The authors explore campaign autobiographies, Curtis Sittenfeld’s speculative fiction, James Patterson’s on-the-run thrillers, as well as atypical UK April 2026 • US April 2026 216 Pages PB 9798765142226 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765142233 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765142257 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9798765142240 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

representations of the First Lady, such as in Roland Emmerich’s box office hit Independence Day (1996), gossip magazines, and historical fashion plates. Removed from the patriarchal hierarchy of White House politics and expectations, the First Lady emerges as a cultural force of her own and this collection demonstrates how she carves out cultural agency and gender identity despite her perceived (in)visibility in the public eye.

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Rewriting Alpine Orientalism

Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism Eva-Maria Müller, University of Innsbruck, Austria Rewriting Alpine Orientalism is an open access book that explores how meaning about mountains is articulated, generated, asserted and contested within the global circuits of mountain tourism. Tracing Orientalist and colonial legacies in the project of mountain travel across times, genres and geographies, this book presents a framework capable of analysing and critiquing both particular colonial codifications written onto mountains and the interventions that rewrite mountain tourism. This comparative study bridges the gap between literary and cultural studies and the social and natural sciences with interdisciplinary research across fields such as travel writing, mountain literature, mountaineering history, and ecocriticism, and postcolonial, tourism and gender studies. Eva-Maria Müller examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of UK June 2026 • US June 2026 240 Pages • 7 b&w illustrations HB 9798765107737 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9798765107744 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765107768 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9798765107751 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic

historical and contemporary mountain texts – such as exploration reports, newspaper articles, guidebooks, diaries, letters and contemporary works of fiction from Angie Abdou, Thomas Wharton, Elfriede Jelinek and Felix Mitterer – in a study that enhances our understanding of the role of representation in changing the social real of alpine spaces. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction Complicity and Continuities

Stephanie Bird, University College London, UK Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies, this open access book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity. It considers how these novels challenge our understanding of perpetration and complicity, how they point to different types of complicit involvement that continue into the present, and how they explore the potential for countering complicity. Literary representations of Nazi perpetrators that give them a voice frequently cause anxiety, fuelled by ethical worry around the fascination exerted by perpetrators, and the sense that enjoyment of their literary representation might be morally inappropriate. This book takes such unease as its starting point. UK May 2026 • US May 2026 288 Pages HB 9781350424098 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350424135 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350424104 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350424111 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Focusing on authors and texts from countries directly involved in the genocidal policies of National Socialism, Stephanie Bird analyses novels that demand our engagement with perpetration and complicity and that question literature’s critique of and participation in constructing our understanding of mass violence. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI

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Cold War Women

Female Translators of Russian and Soviet Literature in the Twentieth Century Cathy McAteer, University of Exeter, UK In this open access volume, Cathy McAteer profiles female translators of Russian and Soviet literature into English during the last century, focusing on the UK, USSR and US. Drawing from extensive archival material, including British Intelligence files, reviews, publications and memoirs, Cold War Women sketches the microhistories of eight complex and occasionally controversial bilingual women: Moura Budberg, Vera Traill, Evelyn Manning, Margaret Wettlin, Violet Dutt, Edith Bone, Olga Carlisle, and Mirra Ginsburg. Many of these women, in addition to their work as translators and publishers of Soviet literature, led complex political lives that brought them under scrutiny for espionage, and even suspected assassination. This book explores how literary translation became a uniquely enabling career for each of these women, both in personally Literatures, Cultures, Translation UK May 2026 • US May 2026 248 Pages • 10 b&w images HB 9798765112236 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9798765112243 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765112267 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9798765112250 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic

challenging gender norms, and in showing translation's soft power for galvanizing propagandist and humanitarian change. The book thus rehabilitates forgotten but influential female translators of Russian literature whose contributions helped to shape the Anglophone reception of Russian and Soviet literature both during and beyond their fraught historical moment. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Exeter.

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Mapping Memory in the Works of Édouard Glissant, Caryl Phillips, and Tierno Monénembo Abhishek Trehan Drawing upon the theories of memory studies, this book challenges the historical authenticity of colonialism in the works of Édouard Glissant, Caryl Phillips, and Tierno Monénembo as they seek to place their fiction in the aftermath of reparative histories. Trehan examines not only the histories of displacement, diasporic traditions, genocidal trauma or continuation of colonialist affiliations in postcolonial societies, but the creative resistance to hegemony. Focusing on the embedded historical memory, the author examines the implications of remembrance (including selective remembering and forgetting) in the process of decolonization—bringing forth the struggle of representation and recognition. This book probes the transmission of traumatic UK October 2025 • US October 2025 128 Pages PB 9798765188583 • £17.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765188545 • £75.00 / $90.00 ePDF 9798765188613 • £67.50 / $81.00 ePub 9798765188620 • £67.50 / $81.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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memory across generations by amplifying the nexus between history and memory, reading beyond nation-based interpretations. By comparing the continuity of colonial legacy in the works of Glissant, Phillips, and Monénembo, Trehan examines a model of postcolonial inheritance to understand how ordinary people relate to the question of political expression by focusing on the colonial history, memory, and trauma.

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Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature Jesse van Amelsvoort, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Using works by Hafid Bouazza, Najat El Hachmi, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Leïla Slimani, Zadie Smith, and Kjell Westö, this book looks at post-national feelings of belonging in contemporary European literature. In their literary work and authorship, these authors turn to imagine larger worlds, within and beyond Europe, to escape the confinements of the national and to imagine communities created through connections and solidarities they choose to sustain. This book analyses issues of voice, representation, history, memory, home, and cross-cultural solidarity in these authors’ New Horizons in Contemporary Writing UK June 2026 • US June 2026 240 Pages PB 9781350595231 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350595194 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350595200 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350595217 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

novels, stories, and poetry, finding attempts to shape literary worlds that escape the trappings of Europe’s history and sustain into an uncertain future. In its innovative combination of perspectives from world literature, minority studies, and European studies, and reading across seven languages and cultures, this book shows the many worlds of European literature. Through exploring how these writers negotiate identity, borders, and culture in the late-twentieth and early-twentyfirst centuries, this book makes visible a Europe in which identities can once again be defined outside the borders of the national.

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Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in Literature and Political Culture Violent Borders and Gender Orders Joshua D. Martin Joshua D. Martin explores how four novels set in the nineteenth-century shortly after the creation of the modern-day USMexico border reveal a cultural continuum of masculinized violence and cultural grievances that characterize contemporary political culture. Written by Mexican, Mexican-American, Tejana, and US writers, these novels configure Anglo male characters as builders and defenders of their communities or the republic, exploring how these roles intersect with broader imperial interests. Different iterations of violence—interpersonal, economic, and epistemic—are used to create and maintain power hierarchies against characters who stand at the periphery of this imagined community. Nevertheless, the borderlands emerge as a UK February 2026 • US February 2026 198 Pages PB 9781666966466 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666966442 • £80.00 / $100.00 ePDF 9798216266129 • £72.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781978759824 • £72.00 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic

space for decolonial alternatives, where the power of imperial actors invites resistance and subversion, and where counterhegemonic strategies are envisioned and realized. Martin concludes by exploring the salience of this continuum in US political culture, identifying the border both as a stage for the performance of aggressive masculinity and cultural antipathies, as well as a space where American identity is contested, deconstructed, and continually reimagined.

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Women (Re)Writing Illness as Their Own The Processes and Products Edited by Rachel N. Spear Women (Re)Writing Illness as Her Own illuminates ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own—spaces that interrogate illness, challenge restitution (re)constructions, and work within and around various limitations associated with women writing illness. Bridging trauma studies with women’s studies, this collection blends creative writing and literary studies to explore how illness can weigh on the process of writing. The chapters examine narrative products to better understand how women write illnesses in relation to identity (re)constructions, how they challenge triumphant tropes, how they work within and beyond UK January 2026 • US January 2026 186 Pages • 6 B/W illus PB 9781666979961 • £28.99 / $29.95 HB 9781666979947 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePDF 9798216268413 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9781978759534 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic

narrative and linguistic limitations, how the very metaphors and/or genres selected work to aid in their narrating processes, and how their writing acts and products work in conjunction with their illness and (sometimes) healing journeys.

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Fanfiction as Queer Healing

Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship Alice M. Chapman-Kelly, University of Oxford, UK Exploring the phenomenon of Femslash fanfiction (fan narratives that bring together heterosexual female characters from mainstream media and fiction), this book analyses fan-authored works as forms of literature worthy of studying at length. It examines the anti-racist, feminist, sapphic fan works produced in response to white supremacist, heteronormative, queerbaiting mainstream fantasy and argues that they represent a significant site of queer healing for marginalised audience members. Focusing on the 'Swan Queen' fandom, where fans pair the ‘white trash’ heroine, Emma Swan and the villainous Latina Evil Queen (Regina Mills) from ABC's hit show Once Upon a Time, Alice Kelly redresses the widespread academic neglect of Perspectives on Fantasy UK May 2026 • US May 2026 232 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350350861 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350350908 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350350878 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350350885 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

queer female fandoms and responds to urgent calls to diversify fan and fantasy scholarship. With reference to complex theoretical subjects such as ethnography, sociology, psychology and decolonial, queer, film and media studies, the book also delves into the alternative timescales on which queer female and genderqueer fan authorship runs; offers intriguing insights into fanfiction narrative structures; and tackles the issues of broader fandom representation and contextualization.

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Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction

Confronting Dogmatism, Demagoguery, and Disinformation John Rieder, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Speculative fiction thrives on the creation of counterworlds that challenge status quo assumptions about what is possible – but it calls for a willing suspension of disbelief from the first page. In the face of conspiracy theories, election fraud claims, holocaust and climate change denials and vaccine resistance running roughshod over previously established fact, reality has seen lies advanced and accepted as truth on a massive scale. Trapped as we are in this current moment, the critical potential of speculative fiction is all the more important as it enables us to sidestep the barriers to dialogue raised by dogmatism and to imagine possibilities that can help us “escape” from fantastic right-wing demagoguery as well as the effects of normalizing the unconscionable and the disastrous. UK May 2026 • US May 2026 192 Pages PB 9781350551565 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350551527 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350551534 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350551541 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

Rieder argues that the genre cannot carry the load by itself but must be supplemented by professional criticism and pedagogy within secondary and higher education. Through readings of fiction by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone How to Lose the Time War, N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy, China Miéville’s The City and the City alongside works by Minsoo Kang, Ann Leckie, Arkady Martine, and Rivers Solomon, this book illuminates how left-leaning intellectuals throughout the world can walk the line between despair at the apparent impotence of truth and outrage at the power of lies.

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Still Reading Romance

Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction Edited by Josefine Smith & Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, Miami University In a world that commodifies feminism, is adapting romance novels for small and big screen projects, and the Romance Writers Association is evolving to a more inclusive representative group, it is imperative for researchers to reevaluate the cultural assumptions and gender norming work happening in the romance genre. It is time to question the cultural capital of traditional archetypes, explore the experience of romance readers, and question how romance and cultural studies researchers create quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. This work centers around a data set collected with a revised version of Janice Radway's Reading the Romance survey that will be shared with all the authors of this anthology. By having access to this pool, authors will have the opportunity to explore different elements of reader experience and cultural norms in romance fiction, and potentially reflect on changes since Radway's seminal work. The norms and UK April 2025 • US April 2025 360 Pages • 23 BW Photos, 8 Tables HB 9781538182291 • £85.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798881863791 • £76.50 / $99.00 ePub 9781538182307 • £76.50 / $99.00 Rowman & Littlefield

negotiations readers experience while consuming romance is especially interesting as romancelandia becomes a more mainstream part of popular culture. No other book in romance or popular culture studies identifies a data set as the connecting element, and to do so creates an exciting opportunity to create a more inclusive study of popular romance, offer truly interdisciplinary research on the question of how readers read romance, and generate diverse areas of future scholarship. This edited volume explores multiple issues in romance fiction, based on survey data from real romance readers.

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Errant Natures and Wayward Bodies in Late-Victorian Speculative Fiction Adrian Tait Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary tradition, setting up a dialogue with modernity that is no less relevant today. Late-Victorian literature is full of fascinating examples of what was then called the “scientific romance,” an emerging form of science or speculative fiction whose concern with the liveliness – or “agentiality” – of the nonhuman animal and more-thanhuman, natural world today makes it particularly noteworthy. In a succession of short stories and novels, many now forgotten, writers such as Grant Allen, John Davidson, George Griffith, and Henry Marriott Watson dramatized the possibility that “Nature” had not been “conquered” by industrial modernity, but might instead be reacting to it with an unexpected dynamism. Long before environmental issues such as climate change came to the public’s attention, they asked whether UK September 2025 • US September 2025 248 Pages PB 9781666945072 • £17.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666945058 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765189078 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978771611 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

humankind might one day inadvertently create existential threats to its own survival. In so doing, these pioneers of sf depicted their world in terms that anticipate the recent new materialist focus on a mutable and dynamic reality, responsive and perhaps resistant to human endeavor.

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Science Fiction Language in Action Scientologese

Jennifer Kelso Farrell In this book, Jennifer Kelso Farrell investigates the way in which L. Ron Hubbard used his background in science fiction to create a language for his religion that served to gatekeep outsiders out and insulate insiders. Examining the works of science fiction authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, and Samuel Delany, Farrell explores the relationship between language and reality and the role language can play in reprogramming individuals. The author also draws upon high profile biographies from former members such as Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology and My Billion Year Contract to display how indoctrination into such language often causes a language barrier between those within Scientology and those outside of it, thus further isolating members and perpetuating Scientologese within their inner circle. Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, Farrell illustrates how this language came UK September 2025 • US September 2025 176 Pages PB 9781666949995 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666949971 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216202608 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978760455 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

to be, and how it continues to persist today.

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Encountering Material Culture Through Archaeological Fiction Wonderful Things in Literature, Film and Media Kerry Dodd, Lancaster University, UK Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and ‘things’ in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narratives through which humanity represents its own material heritage in relation to notions of enchantment, exhibition, estrangement, adventure, tourism and waste. Kerry Dodd asserts that comprehending the structures through which material culture is presented within archaeological media reveals the structures that transform an object from rubbish to relic. Calling upon such indicative literature, films, TV series and video games as Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, Uncharted and Relic Hunter, this book explores the depiction of material culture through three principal areas – relics, exhibition and adventure. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 280 Pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350367425 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350367463 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350367432 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350367449 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

Outlining a critical framework of artefact representation, Dodd argues that such iconic moments as Howard Carter’s remark that he saw ‘wonderful things’ when he broke into the antechamber of Tutankhamun’s tomb remain recognisable through the evocation of a spectacular visual, despite little concrete definition of the objects witnessed. This book offers a unique exploration of how such figures as Indiana Jones, Lara Croft and Carter have cemented a cultural recognition of what an artefact constitutes as being dependent on how an object is encountered.

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Translating the Nonhuman

What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Translating Douglas Robinson, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong The so-called "fictional turn" in translation studies has staked out territory previously unclaimed by translation scholars – territory in which translators are portrayed as full human beings in their social environments – but so far no one has looked to science fiction for truly radical explorations of translation. Translating the Nonhuman fills that gap, exploring speculative attempts to cross the yawning chasm between human and nonhuman languages and cultures. The book consists of three essays, each bringing a different theoretical orientation to bear on a different science-fiction work. The first studies Samuel R. Delany’s 1966 novel, Babel-17, using Peircean semiotics; the second studies Suzette Haden Elgin’s 1984 novel, Native Tongue, using Austinian performativity and Eve Sedwick’s periperformative corrective; and the UK May 2026 • US May 2026 176 Pages HB 9798765112847 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9798765112809 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9798765112823 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9798765112816 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic

third studies Ted Chiang’s 1998 novella, “Story of Your Life,” and its 2016 screen adaptation, Arrival, using sustainability theory. Themes include the 1950s clash between Whorfian untranslatability and the possibility of unbounded (machine) translatability; the performative ability of a language to change reality and the reliance of that ability on the periperformativity of “witnesses”; and alienation from the familiar in space and time and its transformative effect on the biological and cultural sustainability of human life on earth.

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Cultural Models and Collective Mentalities in Literature, Art, and Philosophy Edited by Slav Gratchev, Marshall University, USA & Valery Chirkov This edited collection combines social science and humanities inquiries to examine the collective mentalities, identities, and national cultural models of people from different communities and nations. Unpacking the sociocultural mechanisms of people’s actions and experiences, the contributors use literary works to illustrate and further explore such mechanisms. This book explores a variety of diverse geographies from around the globe in order to compare national forms of human subjectivity and further examine collective consciousness and cultural minds.

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Underwater Lives

Humans, Species, Ocean Clare Brant, King's College London, UK With alarm bells ringing about the sustainability of humans’ interaction with the oceans, Underwater Lives asks, what can we learn from an underwater world seen through divers’ eyes? What ideas are at work and play? How is oceanic knowledge spread? How is the ocean ‘seen’ through immersive texts? How do contemporary underwater life writers engage with the destruction of the Anthropocene? Reading texts and images together, and sometimes against each other, Clare Brant investigates how life writing operates underwater, how particular visual conventions shape what we see, how literature partners with other arts to convey ocean life and what underwater life writings have to say about the entangled politics of human engagement with ocean lives. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 304 Pages • 30 colour images HB 9781350280472 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350280519 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350280489 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781350280496 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic

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Structured around the lives of humans, marine beings and the ocean itself, Underwater Lives is a pioneering study of how people represent underwater. You might expect to meet William Beebe, Hans and Lotte Hass, Jacques Cousteau, Eugenie Clark, Rachel Carson, Sylvia Earle and you do; you meet scientists who share their lives with whales, sharks, octopus, seals, turtles, corals and fish; you meet image-makers involved in the BBC’s documentary series Blue Planet I and II; you also encounter all sorts of people who simply went underwater and wrote about it.

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The World Is Not Enough A Biography of Ian Fleming Oliver Buckton The definitive history of the flamboyant life of Ian Fleming and his most famous creation, James Bond. This new biography of Ian Fleming presents a fresh and illuminating portrayal of the iconic creator of James Bond. Oliver Buckton provides the first in-depth exploration of the entire process of Ian Fleming’s writing—from initial conception, through composition, to his involvement in the innovative publication methods of his books. He also investigates the vital impact of Fleming’s work in naval intelligence during World War Two on his later writings, especially the wartime operations he planned and executed and how they drove the plots of the James Bond novels. UK August 2025 • US August 2025 392 Pages • 9 b/w photos HB 9781538138571 • £30.00 / $40.00 PB 9798881806293 • £17.99 / $24.95 ePDF 9798765155295 • £16.19 / $22.45 ePub 9781538138588 • £16.19 / $22.45 Rowman & Littlefield

Offering a radically new view of Fleming’s relationships with women and their influence on Fleming’s work, and concluding with a thorough analysis of the James Bond films, The World is Not Enough is a fascinating investigation into the life and works of a celebrated writer.

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Milan Kundera Known and Unknown

Multidimensional Analysis of Selected Works Edited by Karen von Kunes, Yale University, USA This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works. With essays that focus on Kundera’s poetry and plays, his last four novels written in French, and his nonfiction writings on the novelistic form and translation, Milan Kundera Known and Unknown explores the complex and productive career of this globally recognized author. Starting as a poet and playwright, Kundera transcended the Czech literary scene and rose to global prominence with his novelistic style of variations, paradoxes, humor, and clairvoyance into human relationships mixed with political tensions. His multi-dimensional existential topics introduced complex novelistic characters that have reached a large audience and remain UK June 2026 • US June 2026 288 Pages • 1 bw illustration HB 9798765109458 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9798765109465 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765109489 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765109472 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

evocative. Kundera also critically commented on creative works – his own and of others – thus contributing a unique approach to a specific aesthetic ideal and within the masterworks of world-renowned authors. Chapters on Kundera’s aesthetics and form, his philosophical leanings, his relationship to the burgeoning concept of “world literature,” and translations of his writings offer new perspectives on his life’s work.

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The Haptic Arts

How Touch Shapes Our Place in the World Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma, USA This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of “art” and “aesthetics” to include worldly arts such as medicine, nation building, and translation while re-thinking more traditional arts of literature, music, and painting. Touch is a form of reciprocal interchange – touching always involves being touched in return. It creates a sense of embeddedness in a world that promotes a willingness to take social action, and it heightens concern with spatial perception and metamorphosis with an eye towards transforming experience itself. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 256 Pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781350589520 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350589483 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350589490 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350589506 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

This book offers a systematic alternative to the Romantic notion that the arts are “disinterested.” It does so by focusing on subjects as diverse as Helen Keller, the evolutionary history of the human hand, practical “haptic” endeavors (including toolmaking, which extends and strengthens reach), and art-forms such as ballet, caricature, poetry, fiction, opera, and storytelling. Rather than situating art beyond everyday cares and pursuits , it frames the haptic arts as tools that extend and strengthen our reach into the world.

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Disability in Contemporary American Poetry Radical Accessibility

Declan Gould, Temple University, USA Looking at experimental disability poetry, this book shows how poets from the 1960s to the present develop disabilityinformed poetics and use the space of literature to launch alternative theories of psychiatric and physical disabilities. Revising two key binaries that continue to shape accounts of disability writing – experimentation versus identity, and difficulty versus accessibility – this book develops the concept “radical accessibility” to show how the perception of an oppositional relationship between experimental poetics and expressions of disability is a product of ableist concepts of selfreliance and aesthetic production. Using an approach that centers on writers with disabilities, Gould argues that formal experimentation makes poetry more accessible to writers living with disabilities and illnesses by providing the space to Critical Interventions in the Medical create alternative poetic forms for thinking the world and self. and Health Humanities UK April 2026 • US April 2026 224 Pages • 3 bw illus PB 9781350456495 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350456457 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350456464 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350456471 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

Integrating the insights of poetics, health humanities, and disability studies, the book reveals how Amber DiPietra, Larry Eigner, Bhanu Kapil, Denise Leto, Claudia Rankine, Eleni Stecopoulos, Brian Teare, Hannah Weiner, and David Wolach’s experimental poetic forms complicate the medical model of disability and mediate their embodied experiences, material conditions, encounters with Western medicine, and artistic communities.

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Medicalizing Difference

The Eighteenth-Century Construction of the "Hermaphrodite" Stephanie M. Hilger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Exploring 18th-century medicine’s construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as “hermaphrodites”, this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts—British, French, and German. Medicalizing Difference examines case studies written about Anne Grandjean, Michel Anne Drouart, Maria Dorothea Derrier, and an unnamed “Angolan hermaphrodite.” Multiple case studies were published about each of these individuals and are discussed throughout the book's four chapters, each of which focuses on one momentous epistemological shift in the eighteenth-century: an increasing focus on empiricism and the related professionalization of medicine, the expanding market Critical Interventions in the Medical for popular scientific literature, changing notions about generation and reproduction, and the exploration of foreign territories. and Health Humanities UK May 2026 • US May 2026 208 Pages • 4 bw illus HB 9781350374928 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350374966 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350374935 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350374942 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic

This book reads these case histories against the grain and historicizes 18th-century medicine’s construction of the category of the “hermaphrodite”, demonstrating that, rather than describing a fact, these histories created their subject of study.

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Freud Explained

Psychoanalysis from Vienna to Exile Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck, University of London Freud Explained presents Freud’s core ideas as they developed over the course of his life, in context with his historical moment. It explains key moments in the progression of Freud’s theories – such as sexual repression, the Oedipus complex, and the interpretation of dreams – weaving these together with discussions of his family history and upbringing. It also highlights important shifts, contradictions, and controversies, particularly relating to seduction theory, hysteria, female sexuality, and homosexual desire. Stephen Frosh describes Freud’s life in Vienna and the patients with whom he worked; looks at the relationships he formed with his teachers and followers; and focuses on how his theories developed in the context of the enormous social and Psychoanalytic Horizons

political upheavals of the time – disruptions that eventually prompted Freud to move to England, in order “to die in freedom.”

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Frosh’s expertise on antisemitism is especially vital to his discussion of the challenges Freud faced, as a Jewish intellectual in Vienna, to the dissemination of his radical ideas. As more people feel comfortable seeking psychotherapy, and as the socio-political world in which we live becomes more emotionally challenging, we all — knowingly or not — draw on Freud’s ideas about nresolved conflicts and traumatic memories as we try to make sense of things.

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Rama Rasa

Transcendence and Worldliness in the Ramayana Tradition Nikhil Govind, Head of the Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India The Ramayana tradition, with its multifarious aesthetic and spiritual claims, reveals its depth and versatility in this study of three influential texts: Bhavabhuthi’s Uttara Rama Carita, the anonymous Adhyatma Ramayana, and Tulsidas’ Ramcaritmanas. The eighth-century Uttara Rama Carita (Rama’s Last Act) is a culmination of the Rama-tradition’s aesthetic dimension. It showcases the tradition as crystallizing a pathos of viraha in myriad modes: separation between self and beloved, between parents and children, between royalty and populace, between life and after-life, between bereavement and memory. Drawing from this dramatic tradition, the fourteenth-century Adhyatma Ramayana and Tulsidas’ epochal sixteenth-century Ramcaritmanas develop the Rama-narratives in the UK April 2026 • US July 2026 200 Pages HB 9789361313097 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9789361317514 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9789361312342 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic India

more soteriological directions of Advaita and Bhakti. Throughout the tradition, Rama’s self is understood in both the dimension of time (learning and growth, despite all the wounds the world inflicts), as well as that which exists in the moment in the heated everyday encounter with partner, parents, children, and citizens. Taken together, these three texts provide a refreshing vantage into the Rama-tradition as it boldly takes on humanity’s deepest quest for love, justice, and spiritual freedom. This book is written in a style that invites one to respectfully inhabit the tradition and allow the Rama-narrative to emerge, query, and ennoble our shared contemporary moment.

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Interspecies Negotiations

Human-Wildlife Conflict in Indian Literature Edited by Susan Haris, BITS Pilani, India & Anu Pande, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India Interspecies Negotiations: Literature and Human-Wildlife Conflict in Indian Literature brings together literary analyses that explore how contemporary Indian literature rejects and reimagines human-wildlife entanglements. The escalation of human-wildlife conflict in India cannot be explained solely by species behaviour or environmental disruption. It is also deeply social and political, rooted in contestations over land use, governance, and resource distribution. Yet social science accounts often overlook wildlife’s agency and responsiveness to anthropogenic change, where animals are portrayed as passive victims of development agendas. What might an alternative approach look like if we are to move beyond framing these encounters as conflict, recognize the agency of both human and nonhuman animals, and account for the ecological, political and ethical complexities of coexistence? UK May 2026 • US August 2026 320 Pages HB 9789361311840 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9789361316470 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9789361314148 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic India

The essays in this volume cover a nuanced reading at the intersection of literature, ecology, and postcolonial critique by engaging with two key questions: What does it mean to live with wildlife in postcolonial India? And how do literary narratives illuminate the affective and ethical dimensions of interspecies encounters? The collection thus positions literary analysis as a critical site for reimagining coexistence in postcolonial India.

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Modernism Revisited Texts and Contexts

Edited by Amitayu Chakraborty Modernism Revisited: Texts and Contexts offers a profound exploration of modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical, and cultural upheavals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By revisiting key texts, this book provides fresh perspectives on the movement’s formal innovations and ideological contradictions. It delves into themes such as fragmented identities, evolving perceptions of time, and challenges to traditional norms in an era marked by rapid industrialization and urbanization. Each chapter situates seminal works, including those of T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, within their historical contexts while also showcasing underrepresented voices UK January 2026 • US January 2026 264 Pages • 2 b/w/ illus PB 9781666916508 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666916485 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216267478 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978763784 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

and transnational contributions. The book critically examines subjects such as gendered narratives, mythological influences, linguistic experimentation, and the interplay between modernism and the cityscape. Featuring insights from international scholars, this work integrates textual analysis with interdisciplinary approaches, encompassing literature, philosophy, and cultural studies. By revisiting modernism’s complexities and contradictions, this collection underscores its enduring relevance in contemporary debates on identity, creativity, and cultural change. Perfect for both scholars and students, Modernism Revisited invites readers to reconsider the movement’s lasting legacy and its implications for today’s intellectual and artistic discourses.

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Henry James and the Question of Living Patrick Jones, University of Geneva, Switzerland A bold reinterpretation of Henry James’s fictional universe that shows how characters who desire to “live” but struggle to translate that desire into reality actually have much to teach us about the activity of leading a life. Henry James and the Question of Living demonstrates that characters like Lambert Strether and John Marcher – whom readers often pity and pathologize as squeamish about sex and stuck in their heads – function as vectors for rich philosophical questions. Specifically, the idea that we must experience life as fully and intensely as possible, an injunction that is as omnipresent and affectively charged in our era as it was in James’s own. In their unsuccessful attempts to live up to this injunction, James’s characters reveal that the picture of subjectivity underpinning it has limited purchase on our practical, day-to-day experience of ourselves as agents. UK May 2026 • US May 2026 240 Pages PB 9798765141342 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765141359 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765141373 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765141366 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Arguing that James’s novels and stories are exemplary of what Robert B. Pippin describes as "philosophy by other means," Jones suggests that James’s style – and particularly his use of free indirect discourse – models a way of thinking about the activity of leading a life that is remarkable in its phenomenological subtlety and sophistication. Henry James and the Question of Living ultimately shows that paying close attention to James’s innovative techniques for representing lived experience allows us to place him in a mutually-enriching dialogue with philosophers like Martin Heidegger, Georges Canguilhem, and Béatrice Han-Pile.

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Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy Centennial Essays

Edited by Linda Dryden, Edinburgh Napier University, UK & Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays takes the opportunity to reflect on Conrad’s enduring influence on literature and culture in the 21st century. Offering reflections on Conrad’s legacy by leading critics and scholars in the field of Conrad studies as well as by significant figures in the arts and cultural sector, it represents a unique contribution to Conrad studies and provides an overview of how the author continues to inspire and shape contemporary literature and culture in the 21st century. Covering a broad range of topics, from discussions of how Conrad has inspired contemporary films and operas through to UK April 2026 • US April 2026 288 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350440845 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350440883 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350440852 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781350440869 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

the pertinence of his works to current conflicts and key contemporary issues, Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy offers unique, original insights into the enduring relevance of one of the leading literary figures of the 20th century.

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A Study of Intertextuality in Mohja Kahf’s "E-Mails from Scheherazad" The "Odalisque” Gazes Back Hamida Riahi In this book, Hamida Riahi explores the powerful use of intertextuality in Mohja Kahf's E-Mails from Scheherazad, focusing on how parody and allusion work to deconstruct Orientalist discourses surrounding Muslim women. Through a parodic rewriting of The Thousand and One Nights, the Shakespearean sonnet genre, and Matisse's paintings, Kahf dismantles reductive stereotypes imposed on Muslim women and revises the dominant Western narratives that portray Muslim women as oppressed and voiceless. Riahi explores how the Kahf draws upon allusion to Islamic history and the Qur’an, invoking iconic figures such as Aisha, Khadija, Esther, Zuleika, and others, to offer a counter-narrative that challenges both Western feminist perspectives and entrenched patriarchal views. Through this dual approach, Kahf not only critiques the historical and cultural misconceptions imposed by the West but also affirms the rich, complex identities of UK September 2025 • US September 2025 120 Pages PB 9781666969917 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666969894 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765154151 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781666969900 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Trespassing in the Archive

Poetry in Conversation with History Edited by Kristina Marie Darling This edited volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to examine works of poetry that engage, question, or reimagine history. Authors question the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of archival work to explore the ways in which poetry has offered a hypothetical testing ground where the power dynamics, upheavals, and discontent reflected in historical texts can be renegotiated.

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Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival A Critical Anthology

Edited by Dennis Wilson Wise 2025 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Finalist for Myth and Fantasy Studies If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is “yes.” Over the last ten decades, poets working in fantasy, science fiction, and horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative poetics akin to what once happened in the mid-fourteenth century. Altogether, this anthology collects for the first time over fifty speculative poets— several of whom are previously unpublished—from across North America and Europe. Alongside such established names as C. S. Lewis, Patrick Rothfuss, Edwin Morgan, Poul Anderson, Jo Walton, P. K. Page, and W. H. Auden, this anthology UK September 2025 • US September 2025 426 Pages • 2 b/w illustration HB 9781683933298 • £50.00 / $68.00 PB 9781683939856 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9781683937890 • £22.49 / $31.45 ePub 9781683933304 • £22.49 / $31.45 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

includes representative texts from cultural movements such as contemporary neo-Paganism and the Society for Creative Anachronism. A lengthy critical introduction by the editor—written accessibly for a general audience—explains and contextualizes the Modern Revival for critics and readers alike, and extensive footnotes offer aids to anyone new to medieval history or Norse mythology. Overall, this indispensable anthology—the first major academic book to focus on speculative poetry—establishes where the medieval meets the modern in the hitherto unrecognized Modern Alliterative Revival.

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Microphone Ralph Jones, Freelance Writer, UK Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily lives has been comparatively gradual – so gradual, crucially, that it is easy to forget just how much we take it for granted. Every phone has a microphone. Every laptop has a microphone. We are surrounded by microphones. The microphone wields enormous power. But when we're ‘on mic’ we aren't just powerful, we're vulnerable. Microphones can destroy careers as quickly as make them. The microphone is inextricable from our need to be heard. This book takes a curious, always humorous look at this object as a metaphor for power and how the fulfillment of our desire to be heard has

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created a multi-headed beast we are still learning how to tame.

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Ballot Anjali Enjeti- Sydow, Reinhardt University, USA Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Ballot examines the psychological, cultural, and political significance of voting in an increasingly anti-voting climate. Armed with her personal experiences as a poll worker, electoral organizer, and activist, Anjali Enjeti unspools a timely narrative about the precarious state of the ballot during one of the most tumultuous political eras in US history, and recounts the astonishing events leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Enjeti lays out the growing challenges for voters in battleground states, where rightwing legislatures have introduced staggering numbers of voter suppression bills and redrawn district lines, all to disenfranchise as many Black and other Object Lessons UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages PB 9798765126196 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePDF 9798765126219 • £8.99 / $13.45 ePub 9798765126202 • £8.99 / $13.45 Bloomsbury Academic

marginalized voters as possible. As her account of the history and stakes of election integrity shows, the aftershocks of the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021 have manifested most egregiously on the four corners of the ballot.

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Edited by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA How have the fairy tales of different cultures changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about our fears and hopes? In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions are addressed by over 50 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. With the help of a broad range of case material they illustrate broad trends and nuances of the fairy tale in Western culture from antiquity to the present. Themes (and chapter titles) are: forms of the marvelous; adaptation; gender and sexuality; humans and non-humans; monsters and the monstrous; spaces; socialization; and power. The page extent for the pack is approximately 2,000pp. Each volume opens with notes on contributors and an introduction and concludes with notes, bibliography, and an index.

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Creative Writing and the Critical Commentary Reflection, Influence, Process

Edited by Karen Stevens, University of Chichester, UK & Jonathan Taylor, University of Leicester, UK In this unique collection of essays, published writers offer an intimate view of how their work has been informed, shaped and transformed by their literary, political, philosophical or personal influences. Providing models of the critical commentaries that all students of creative writing must write, each essay from contemporary authors of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, scripts and digital writing demonstrates how what writers write is determined by what they have read, and what they read is then determined by what they are writing. As writers reflect on their process of moving from sources of inspiration to a finished and original piece of writing, they reveal their anxieties, passions, discoveries and motivations, offering fascinating insights into the imagination’s journey. With opening chapters exploring the importance and wider contexts of why writers reflect on their own work, the book also offers theoretical frameworks for understanding influence and inspiration. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 208 Pages HB 9781350439887 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350439894 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350439900 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781350439917 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic

As illuminating for aspiring writers as it is for students reflecting on their research and process as part of writing courses, Creative Writing and the Critical Commentary will change the way writers talk about and engage with other texts.

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Divergent Writers

Disability, Illness, Neurodivergence, and Ableism in Creative Writing Edited by Christie Collins, Mississippi State University, USA & Saul Lemerond, Hanover College, USA Bringing together essays from neurodivergent and disabled writers, and writers with chronic illnesses, this collection explores the impact of these experiences and the struggle against such biases within the field of creative writing. Whilst neurodivergent and disabled writers publish world-class poetry, prose, and drama that moves readers and wins awards, they face many difficulties accessing these achievements — difficulties which often go unnoticed, unmentioned, and underappreciated. Visibility, insight, alternative approaches, and thorough research are all needed to create more inclusive writing environments. This book confronts these issues head on, calling for diversity in the creative writing field, community, and industry, and more equitable spaces in adjacent arenas from academia to publishing. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 232 Pages HB 9781350501874 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350501867 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350501881 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781350501898 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic

With essays and excerpts written by authors and educators from across seven countries, who are each impacted by a wide range of disabilities, including ADHD, autism, blindness, dyslexia, dyspraxia, stroke aphasia, cerebral palsy, bipolar, fibromyalgia, and rheumatoid arthritis, this collection informs, deconstructs and re-imagines to reform and revolutionize normative structures within writing institutions and communities.

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A Practical Guide to Teaching Creative Writing Supporting Inclusive Pedagogy

Bronwen Tate, University of British Columbia, Canada & John Vigna, University of British Columbia, Canada Grounded in progressive pedagogy, this essential resource leads creative writing instructors through each step of designing, teaching, and trouble-shooting a course. A Practical Guide to Teaching Creative Writing offers applied strategies and innovative insights equally valuable for novice and seasoned instructors. Tate and Vigna share tried and tested approaches to online, in-person, and hybrid classes from 6 to 300+ students, attentive to the specific opportunities and challenges of genres from fiction to comics, poetry to TV, creative nonfiction to lyric writing. A Practical Guide to Teaching Creative Writing provides: - Interviews with guest authors and instructors who share classroom strategies, pedagogical provocations, and proven UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages • 41 bw illus HB 9781350427716 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350427723 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePDF 9781350427730 • £17.99 / $24.25 ePub 9781350427747 • £17.99 / $24.25 Bloomsbury Academic

practices—including Felicia Rose Chavez on inclusive course design, Liz Lerman on developing Critical Response Process, Nalo Hopkinson on research and speculative fiction, and many more. - Approaches to active learning in undergraduate and graduate classrooms ranging in size and institutional context. - Guidance on creating effective and meaningful assignments in writing, reading, research, and revision that scaffold learning and build capacity. - Best practices for creating community and navigating the ever-evolving needs of students.

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